Re: silly sendmail question

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't
> > get it to work:
> [snip]
> > 
> > However, I have an old sendmail.cf V8.7 file that works perfectly
> > with /etc/mail/users.db (it sent this email).

Perhaps I have something wrong again, since you replied to
rhogee@mixing.qc.dfo.ca (my behind-the-firewall address) !
 
> > Any clues?
 
> Nope -- I actually tried that same solution about an hour after I
> posted that message and it didn't work (using 8.9.3, I think).  Are
> you just using the old config file with the new sendmail, 

Yes.  I can't get a new .cf file to work correctly with sendmail.
The setup still works, but it's a hack.  If I can't get it to
work as advertised I will eventually drop sendmail in favour of
something else.

>                                                           or do you
> have the old sendmail installed (which is probably a bad security
> idea)?

No, using a new sendmail with an old config file is probably
going to lead to problems eventually.

Thanks,
Peter