On 2016-11-08 20:38, Thomas - In:Quality wrote: > That disclaimer is of limited use for people who bring their own > sendmail.cf. ;-) It's a very old and possibly bad habit, but it has not > been a problem for many years,
I can easily reproduce your problems in minimal chroots with apt-get install sendmail $EDITOR /etc/mail/sendmail.cf apt-get reinstall sendmail-bin That regenerates sendmail.cf, removing any customization (well, I only tested with comments) while nothing of the *.m4 has changed (but perhaps something gets touched?). But this "works" in wheezy, jessie and stretch, so it probably has worked always in that way. > and I don't even see the point of > rebuilding the file unless there was an update to the m4 stuff. Maybe > "make" can be limited to just the database files for startup? I have no clue how that configuration setup actually works in the Debian package :-( Andreas