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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:51:36 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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...
Message-ID:  <199612041951.MAA11333@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612041943.NAA17903@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
References:  <199612041821.LAA10958@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199612041943.NAA17903@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>

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> > > 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



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