sendmail configure issue, or, what mc file did they use?

soylentgreen · 08-14-2007, 10:43 AM

Our mail server hasn't been touched in a couple years before I got here.

I am trying to add a LOCAL_RULESET to our sendmail.mc so I can run the m4 command to generate the sendmail.cf file.

we have about 25 *.mc files on the server, and I am not sure which one was used to make our current config.

is there a way to find out which mc file was used, or can I re-generate the mc file from the existing *.cf file?

I had tried adding this rule to our best-guess at which mc file it was

Code:

LOCAL_CONFIG
F{Internal}/etc/mail/intern.only
LOCAL_RULESETS
SLocal_check_rcpt
# if the recipient isn't internal, they get the mail
R$+                     $: <@> $>3 $1
R<@> $={Internal}<@$=w.>        $: <$1@$2>
R<@> $={Internal}               $: <$1@$j>
# no internal alias
R<@>$+                  $@ OK
# check to see if the sender is local
R$*                             $: $>3 $&f
R$+<@$=w.>      $@ OK
# empty sender: accept (RFC 1123)
R<@>            $@ OK
R$+                     $#error $: 551 $&f not allowed to send to recipient

after I put that code into our mc file and ran the m4 command, the resulting file was nothing like the cf file we have in production.

I have looked on google to see about how exactly to add LOCAL_RULESETS, and I have a sendmail book here (for version 8.8) but I am having problems making it make sense.

Any assistance would be thrilling!

MensaWater · 08-14-2007, 11:45 AM

You could save your current sendmail.cf then just create a new one from each of the mc files then diff the resulting cf files with the one you saved.

Of course the above assumes no one manually edited the cf file after it was generated which as they say "ain't necessarily so".