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From: "Norman Hoy" <normh@aone.com.au>
To: "Tushar Patel" <tushar@ecpi.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How will I find the version number for sendmail
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:13:09 +1030
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telnet to your smtp port and look at the header response
ie telnet localhost 25 <cr>

you will get a response like esmtp spoken here sendmail
version 8.8.9   etc

regards
  Norman

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> From: Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com>
> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: How will I find the version number for sendmail
> Date: Wednesday, 7 January 1998 6:15
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How do I find the version number of the senmail we are running.?
> 
> Man sendmail indicates we have sendmail 8, but it does not give me
> anything like 8.5 or 8.6 etc?
> 
> We need to install the latest version of sendmail 8.8 so, we can take
> some measures againt spamer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tushar
> 
> tushar@ecpi.com