From: Aaron (mlproficuous.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 17:51:06 CST

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I was wanting to set up an antispam/anti-virus mail system and in the
past i've always used postfix as my mta. I have read a few posts on the
list where people suggest sticking w/the openbsd default, sendmail. I'm
considering doing this save one question. I know that when you modify
things (i'm just not sure what) you have to recompile them. This will
make upgrading considerable more difficult.

So lets say i start w/the base install and change my rc.conf.local to
point at sendmail.cf , edit the appropriate files in the src directory.
Things like, sending mail as mydomain.com instead of
myhost.mydomain.com, smart hosts, and whatever else needs to be
changed. When i update or upgrade my system, am i going to need to
manually go back every time and recreate the steps to get my mail system
working again? Does the openbsd-proto.mc get overwritten every time i
update the source via cvs. I just need this for sendmail now, but as a
general question:

What changes to configs/files etc, in the base system would dictate that
a separate rebuild of that component after an update or upgrade?

Thanks in advance,

Aaron Martinez

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