From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 18 21:37:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA17055 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:37:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17049 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA17793 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:37:08 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id GAA09332 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:36:32 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id AAA26116; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:43:52 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:43:51 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). References: <199611180748.XAA14898@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50.05 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: <199611180748.XAA14898@salsa.gv.ssi1.com>; from Don Lewis on Nov 17, 1996 23:48:22 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ redirected to -hackers ] According to Don Lewis: > comp.mail.sendmail that qmail only announces this to keep sendmail from > doing an 8->7 rewrite. Other than that, qmail just sends 8 bits even > if it is talking to some crusty old mailer that strips of the eighth And you don't have the advantages of the ESMTP extensions like DSN... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996