I was wanting to set up an antispam/anti-virus mail system and in the past i've always used postfix as my mta. I have read a few posts on the list where people suggest sticking w/the openbsd default, sendmail. I'm considering doing this save one question. I know that when you modify things (i'm just not sure what) you have to recompile them. This will make upgrading considerable more difficult.

So lets say i start w/the base install and change my rc.conf.local to point at sendmail.cf , edit the appropriate files in the src directory. Things like, sending mail as @mydomain.com instead of @myhost.mydomain.com, smart hosts, and whatever else needs to be changed. When i update or upgrade my system, am i going to need to manually go back every time and recreate the steps to get my mail system working again? Does the openbsd-proto.mc get overwritten every time i update the source via cvs. I just need this for sendmail now, but as a general question:

What changes to configs/files etc, in the base system would dictate that a separate rebuild of that component after an update or upgrade?


Thanks in advance,

Aaron Martinez

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