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Sendmail request for comments (Was: Re: [cobalt-developers] RAQ4 - Security Problems)

ToPPi wrote:

> I'd appreciate to find some pkg's or rpm's to update this software in order
> to close this security leaks.
> Is sun developing new pkgs?? or do the discontinue the support for the raq's

I'm opening this up as not a solution, but as a topic for discussion...

The RaQ's implementation of sendmail includes some custom changes to a
whole bunch of files sendmail uses, but sendmail itself is pretty
"straight".

My suggestion would be to compile sendmail from source, but NOT do the
"make install".  Instead move the main sendmail program file you've
created yourself (even a newer version) over the old one.

My guess (ONLY A GUESS -- DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME ON A PRODUCTION
SERVER) is that you can easily upgrade sendmail on your Raq this way
without breaking anything.

Any comments???

Jeff
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