Beyond changes to the build system, this includes fixing up the sample
freebsd.mc configuration for changes in defaults and syntax, removing
outdated documentation, and updating the release notes.
would leave you with a broken sendmail and local mail loss.
This evil hack moves sendmail.cf from the old location to the new one (if
required) at install time.
This program is a wrapper for the prog mailer in sendmail. It does shell
meta character masking and restricts the list of executables to those found
in /usr/libexec/sm.bin.
The default sendmail.cf file does not use this tool, however you can enable
it by either changing /bin/sh to /usr/libexec/smrsh or adding the line
FEATURE(smrsh) into your sendmail .mc file and rebuilding your .cf file.
For more info, RTFMP.