Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:02:20 +0200
Message-Id: <199706291802.UAA22345@marekm.home>
From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@piast.t19.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
Subject: sendmail: suggestion for sendmail.mc configuration
To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Package: sendmail
Version: 8.8.5-1

This is a request for enhancement rather than a real bug...

At the end of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, there is a line saying:

## Custom configurations below (will be preserved)

However, some of the custom configuration must appear above
the MAILER definitions to have any effect.  I have a dialup PPP
connection, and I want the system to queue all non-local mail (it
will be sent when "sendmail -q" is run from the /etc/diald/ip-up
script) to avoid bringing up the PPP connection unnecessarily.
At the same time, I want local mail to be delivered immediately.
I added the following lines to my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:

define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')dnl
define(`confDIAL_DELAY', `10s')dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', `<mail server hostname>')dnl
define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS', `e')dnl

Now, for SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS to work (the "e" flag means that the
smtp mailer is expensive), it must appear above MAILER(smtp)dnl -
and thus above the "Custom configurations" line, but then it
won't be preserved when sendmailconfig is run next time.

Suggestions:
 - allow local configuration at the beginning of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
   (maybe include another, local m4 file?),
 - add support for the configuration mentioned above (which might be
   useful for other people with dialup PPP) to sendmailconfig.

Marek

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux marekm 2.0.30 #1 Sun Jun 1 09:14:11 EST 1997 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages sendmail depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.33-3
libgdbm1	Version: 1.7.3-19
libdb1	Version: 1.85.4-3
netbase	Version: 2.13-1
deliver	Version: 2.1.12-2
m4	Version: 1.4-6