March 03, 2003
Sendmail upgrade
Tags: E-Mail , KE

Sendmail upgraded on KE, same issue as MIR.

KE is special: we're using the sendmail-sasl port from the FreeBSD ports tree because we want to provide both SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS (which are not present in the default sendmail, particularly for FreeBSD 4.5). I have built a new package on my workstation, labeled sendmail-sasl-8.12.6_2ecs. This package include the 8.12 patch from sendmail.org. It still calls itself 8.12.6, however it is a fully patched version.

It seems to be working properly.

To apply the patch to the FreeBSD ports tree, I downloaded the patch (above) and saved it as /usr/ports/net/sendmail/files/patch-ab. The ports make system automatically applies patches with that filename scheme. Searching the source files after make for a post-patch modification (like "Dropped invalid comments from header address" in sendmail/headers.c) shows that the patch worked. This string is also in the sendmail binary (/usr/local/sbin/sendmail - use the strings command to look for it).

Posted by Rowan Littell at March 03, 2003 09:40 PM, updated 10:40 PM March 03, 2003
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