stupid question about sendmail

[Claus Assmann]

On Fri, May 24, 2013, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34-0700, Claus Assmann wrote:

> > > > FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access')

> > Do NOT use -o. Moreover, do not specify arguments that are default.

> Then I guess the defaults in freebsd.mc should be changed as well:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc?revision=249867&view=markup

That default was probably chosen so the MTA does not complain
if the map doesn't exist.
Of course that doesn't work so well if you really want to use
the map but make some mistake -- then an error is silently
ignored and you wonder "Why doesn't this work?"
Hence for this case: do NOT use -o.