[BlueOnyx:10289] Another question on sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc

[Chad Bersche]

So I have a followup question regarding the regular updates of my 
sendmail.cf back to defaults.  I've made my smart mail relay changes to 
sendmail.mc, and have set appropriately:

dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs to
dnl # be sent out through an external mail server:
dnl #
dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`my.obscuredmailhost.com')
dnl #

I have also validated that the same host is set in the sendmail 
configuration of Blueonyx.  However, every time that some update comes 
out, it seems that my sendmail.cf gets clobbered, and I have to deal 
with waiting for my phone to ring to hear that some email isn't going 
out right because of the lack of the relay host in the sendmail.cf.

Execution of "make -C /etc/mail" as outlined in sendmail.mc does NOTHING 
to my sendmail.cf, so I end up having to hand-edit the sendmail.cf to 
just get mail up and running.

I'd like a consistently reliable method where I don't have to do this on 
a regular basis, or I'm seriously going to have to just disable updates 
and check them manually every few weeks when I have the time to install 
them and check the sendmail configuration afterwards...

Please, there's GOT to be something that I'm doing wrong, or that I can 
fix so that I don't have to babysit the update process, or disable it 
entirely.

Thanks!

   -- Chad