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Important information to config file handling:
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The latest version of the sendmail package for Red Hat Linux now uses the new
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and recommended way of separating sendmail into two applications, one for
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email delivery, the other for email reception. The former doesn't need to run
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as root and uses a separate configuration file, called /etc/mail/submit.cf. The
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later only provides email reception functionalty and, as before, uses
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/etc/mail/sendmail.cf as it's configuration file.
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The resons for spliting sendmail into two separate applications and how to use
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it is described in more detail in /usr/share/doc/sendmail/SECURITY.
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!Note!
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New in the latest package now is also that the configuration files will be
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automatically updated after a restart if the corresponding mc files in
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/etc/mail have been modified so changes done to the sendmail.cf and submit.cf
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file will be lost if not done in the respective sendmail.mc and submit.mc
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files, too.
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