[BlueOnyx:03495] Re: making sendmail.cf edits stick

[Jim Dory]

On 2/5/2010 9:27 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
> On Fri February 5 2010 12:15, Jim Dory wrote:
>    
>> On 2/5/2010 8:59 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
>>      
>>> On Fri February 5 2010 11:44, Jim Dory wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I'm trying to bump up the Maximum number of smtp recipients from 25 to
>>>> 50 for an ambulance director with a large volunteer list. I perhaps am
>>>> using old syntax because every day the sendmail.cf file reverts back to
>>>> 25 for MaxRecipients.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using
>>>> m4 sendmail.mc>   sendmail.cf
>>>> then restart sendmail.
>>>>
>>>> What is proper way?
>>>> thx, Jim
>>>>          
>>> Believe the sendmail.mc file specifys "make -C /etc/mail" as the
>>> "correct" way to rebuild the sendmail.cf file and then restart
>>> sendmail...
>>>        
>> Thanks for the reply Larry,
>>
>> I had tried that earlier and it complained - but this time seems to
>> work. (don't remember complaint).
>> But the way I had done it with m4 did change the .cf file - wondering
>> why it would lose the edit overnight. I know services are generally
>> restarted overnight, but as my edit stays in the .mc file it confuses me.
>>
>> thanks again, Jim
>>      
> Hmmm, if it "complained" then there was a problem somewhere in
> the sendmail.mc file.  Appears, if it worked now, that it is compiling
> correctly and should (?) stay...  Have done this and similar many
> times and only have "issues" when the make fails or complains
> for some reason...
>
>    
I see now that my problem may be somehow related to the SolarSpeed 
Spam-AV package. I'm not saying anything bad about that package - I 
probably just don't yet understand how it works. But the greylisting in 
that somehow dies even though the process continues to run - it just 
quits checking the email (in maillog) so when I restart it via the GUI 
(restarting it via command line doesn't help) then it starts checking 
email again but my sendmail.cf file reverts back to default. If I do a 
make -C /etc/mail then it complains of nothing to be done, even though 
the .mc file has the define (`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE', `50')dnl line 
changed (from 25 to 50), leaving the .cf file at 25. Changing the 
timestamp on that file by some small edit then allows the make -C 
/etc/mail command work and change the 25 to 50 in the .cf file.


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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
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Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604

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