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<TITLE>Configuration Files - Overview</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node221.html">The sendmail.cf File</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node218.html">Sendmail+IDA</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node219.html">Introduction to Sendmail+IDA</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0017200000">Configuration Files - Overview</A></H1>
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Traditional sendmail is set up through a system configuration file (typically
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/etc/sendmail.cf or /usr/lib/sendmail.cf), that is not anything
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close to any language you've seen before. Editing the sendmail.cf file
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to provide customized behavior can be a humbling experience.
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<P>
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Sendmail+IDA makes such pain essentially a thing of the past by having all
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configuration options table-driven with rather easy to understand syntax.
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These options are configured by running m4 (a macro processor) or
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dbm (a database processor) on a number of data files via Makefiles
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supplied with the sources.
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The sendmail.cf file defines only the default behavior of the system.
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Virtually all special customization is done through a number of optional
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tables rather than by directly editing the sendmail.cf file. A list
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of all sendmail tables is given in figure-<A HREF="node220.html#sendmailfigtables"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="cross_ref_motif.gif"></A>.
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<STRONG>Figure:</STRONG>
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<A NAME="sendmailfigtables"></A>
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sendmail Support Files.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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