Re: Question about sendmail.mc

[Joe Maimon]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Hi all -
<snip>
> This will put different settings for confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT and
> confMILTER_MACROS_HELO into my sendmailmc file.  I can't imagine that is
> a good thing.

They are different stages in the milter protocol. Its not specifically 
neccessary that the same macros be available to each milter callback 
from sendmail.

> Can someone who understands milters better than me give me a layman's
> explanation of what all these conf* entries in sendmail.mc are so I can
> make a decision about what to do when I run into conflicting
> instructions like this?
Merge the conf* lines so that you only have one of each. I do not know 
what happens if you have multiple ones.

These lines instruct sendmail which sendmail macros to make available to 
the milter for read only access.

Milters can do usefull things with the data.


> Or, if you know of a good FM to R that can explain this in a way that a
> non-programmer, non-sendmail guru can understand, that would be great as
> well.

Unfortunately, I only know the way this geek learned sendmail. Try it. 
It wont hurt you and you may learn something.

Download the sendmail.org sendmail 8.13.4 tarball.

Check these files


tar zxf sendmail.8.13.4.tar.gz
cd sendmail-8.13.4
less README INSTALL sendmail/SECURITY sendmail/README cf/README
cd doc/op
make op.txt
less op.txt
cd ../../libmilter/docs
lynx index.html
lynx http://www.sendmail.org/faq/

Go out and buy the "Bat Book" third edition.




> Thanks!
> Thomas
>
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