From owner-freebsd-security Wed Dec 4 11:51:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18290 for security-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18282 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11333; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:51:36 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:51:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199612041951.MAA11333@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.4 questions... In-Reply-To: <199612041943.NAA17903@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> References: <199612041821.LAA10958@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199612041943.NAA17903@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Looking at www.sendmail.org I see that sendmail 8.8.4 has been > > > released. > > > > Peter incorporated it into -current the day it was released, and Poul > > merged almost all of it into 2.2 about 4 hours later. (He missed a > > non-important change in makemap). > > > > > > Hey, what about 2.1.x ??? 2.1.X is now dead unless Jordan and David (or Paul) decide to roll 'yet another' point release. > Is not 2.1.6. (which is claimed to be almost -stable) supposed > to have "stable" sendmail ? Yes, but since the 2.1.6 are already on CD-ROM it's really hard to change the bits w/out using an electron microscope. *grin* "Stable" doesn't imply bug-free or completely-secure. *All* software has bugs, but at some point the FreeBSD folks had to say 'this is the end of the 2.1.X series), and 2.1.6.1 is it. > Can anybody tell, if there was any real change in the port of 8.8.4 > as compared to the original distribution of 8.8.4 ? I downloaded the 8.8.4 patch onto my 2.1.6.1 box and applied it. It complained about a couple of missing Makefiles (For Linux, SCO, etc..), but otherwise it applied fine. The other choice is to grab the 8.8.4 sendmail from -current and simply plop it on top of your sendmail sources in -stable. It should work in either case. Nate