One further point I forgot:
Suresh Ramasubramanian rearranged electrons thusly:
> 4. Create a file /etc/service.switch (or /etc/mail/service.switch
> depending on the version) ...
> hosts files
> aliases files
To clarify, this service.switch file makes sure that your sendmail doesn't
waste time doing a DNS lookup on the domains you are sending to, when all you
are doing is passing it on to a smarthost for further delivery (and the
smarthost will anyway repeat the DNS lookups before sending it on).
It saves a _lot_ of online time - try replying to a couple of dozen mails when
offline and then running sendmail -q after dialing in - first without and then
with the service.switch file.
> include(`../m4/cf.m4')
Further, note the quoting style here - `' (backtick <that thing below the
tilde> and single quote).
--suresh
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