From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 12:19:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2051527A for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:19:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA44805; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:17:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: dissonant Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail config crises! :( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, dissonant wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > That is a way for sendmail to protect MUAs that don't check the MIME > > header length before copying it. There were some "viri" going around that > > used this to invoke itself when received, without the user doing anything. > > Many of the MUA makers released patches. There is also a patch to > > sendmail to munge Mime headers over a certain length. > > Hm... Okay, well the problem is that I'm running sendmail 8.9.3 and it's > really supposed to be patched already... AFAIK the last version which > didnt include that patch was 8.9.1...? I'm just confused. :( Thanks. Yeah, but you need to set a compile-time option. I don't know if that option was set by either the default sendmail make, or the FreeBSD one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message