sendmail config file question

[Neil Rickert]

In article <16300003 at WL9.Prime.COM> MSHAW at WL9.Prime.COM writes:
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>I'm not a sendmail guru yet but here's my help anyway.
>
>Unless you've done a typo' then you've defined a macro (with the D) and a
>class (with the C) both the macro and the class have the same name (D). I'd
>write something like the below instead.

 There is nothing wrong with a macro and a class having the same name.  If
they are related it may even be a good idea.

>
>Of course I'd also have the old domains defined in a file and then use the
>F command instead of C thus:
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>FO/usr/lib/domains.old                      old domain names
>
>domains.old would contain..
>
>istc.sri.com
>itstd.sri.com
>
>Then I'd be able to update the list of old domains without having to restart
>and reconfigure sendmail (just in case I moved yet again).
>

 Wrong!  You wouldn't have to change sendmail.cf.  But you would still need
to rebuild the freeze file (if used) with sendmail -bz, and you would still
need to kill and restart the daemon.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Sci Dept, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb IL 60115
  rickert at cs.niu.edu                                        +1-815-753-6940
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