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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald Kapper wrote:

> well we did exactly that successfully with v8.11.6 of sendmail.
> warning: only tested on raq2-boxes.
> especially one has to re-integrate the pop-before-smtp-parts into
> sendmail.cf after making a custom one with m4, but that's relatively
> easy by diff'ing the old sendmail.cf with the new one.
> also one has to symlink some /etc/mail/... files onto the /etc/...
> level so the perl-scripts of the admin-interface still find the files
> where they expect them.

Well, what I'm thinking is that if you don't change your sendmail.cf,
you don't have to worry about the file structure differences; I think
they're all in sendmail.cf.

I seem to recall that sendmail will run with old .cf files.  I know you
won't gain some of the functionality of the new program, but if you
learn the program first <smile> you should be able to install only what
you want.

Jeff
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