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Date:  Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:35:32 -0500
From:  Robert Fitzpatrick <lists (at mark) webtent.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:08380] Re: .forward: Group writable directory
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:08 -0600, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> Well...
> The changes in sendmail.mc will not be the same as one would make in
> sendmail.cf,
> Syntax may be different.
> I should have added, but thought one would know...
>   cp /etc/sendmail.mc sendmail.mc.orig
>   same goes when hacking sendmail.cf, or anyother file, save a copy...
> If you hacked sendmail.cf and it was working... Why change it.
> It's the old tale... If it ain't broke don't fix it.
> 
> BTW, the original CBQ servr I did (before Brian's install CD) has;
>   HACK(popauth)dnl
> As the last line which seems to inludes a file at;
>   /usr/share/sendmail-cf/hack/popauth.m4
> 

Believe me, I don't touch anything without backing up first, that is how
I got back to a working sendmail.cf quickly after it failed to work. I
was trying to do all this since you said it was better to hack
sendmail.mc instead of the .cf file and then I notice the BIG CAPS in
the .cf file suggesting the same thing. I found the popauth.m4 file, but
it is at /usr/sausalito/configs/sendmail/popauth.m4. Do you know how
this would be referenced in the sendmail.mc? I assume this is the file
that the GUI failed to include in the sendmail.cf when I tried enabling
POP auth. Also, I manually entered the following line in sendmail.cf and
that seems to have fixed my forwarding issue...

O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath

Do you think there is no need then to mess with the sendmail.mc? Like
you said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Thanks,

Robert