On February 1, 2008 05:51:06 pm Aaron wrote: > 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:
No, it works very nicely. When you make a change to your sendmail.cf using m4 or make or whatever you have to place it in /etc anyways. When you are upgrading, you will be updating /etc as a separate step. The upgrade FAQ explains how to upgrade from one version to the next very well. As long as I have followed it, I have not had a problem. > > 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 -- Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. President & CEO ForeTell Technologies Limited 59 Flamingo Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3J 0X6 Phone: +1 204 885 9535, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
