From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 31 09:02:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01064 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:02:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [208.131.56.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01057; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:01:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from devnull (devnull.calweb.com [208.131.56.69]) by mail.calweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01671; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:01:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970131085803.00990310@pop.calweb.com> Warning: Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) will be returned to send in bulk X-Sender: jfesler@pop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:59:57 -0800 To: Brian Burton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:21 AM 1/31/97 -0500, Brian Burton wrote: >Are there any plans by the FreeBSD team to update FreeBSD 2.1.6-stable >to use sendmail 8.8.5 in the light of the latest cert advisories? Or even better, not to include sendmail at all :-) but to instead grab the current version, and "sh makesendmail", and then merely bring in the FreeBSD sample config files? It seems that nearly every single version of Sendmail that's been released, was due to a security flaw that could lead to root access.. (I hate upgrading even more so than most.. we have a handful of hacks that I have to migrate on every release, for internal security/logging as well as for some workarounds to new sendmail 8.8 behaviors wrt to reading hostnames off of the ethernet device..) -- Jason Fesler jfesler@calweb.com Internic: 'whois jf319' Admin, CalWeb Internet Services http://www.calweb.com Junk email returned, in bulk, back to sender; w/copies to all postmasters. You got junk mail problems? Use Eudora Pro, MSIE's mail, or 'man procmail'.