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From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
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To: spork@super-g.com (S), Wolfgang Ley <ley@cert.dfn.de>
Subject: Re: New sendmail bug...
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>From ley@cert.dfn.de  Mon Nov 18 02:33:06 1996

S wrote:
>
> But if one does have to run 8.7.6 until they have time to breath, does
> anyone know if the error that Igor and I are seeing compiling 8.7.6 from
[...]

That's simply wrong. sendmail 8.7 - 8.8.2 is affected (which includes
sendmail 8.7.6). Install 8.8.3 to fix the bug.

Bye,
  Wolfgang.


This is not the right aproach.
1. As somebody has written, people should be able to get sendmail
from *.freebsd.org without digging for it.
sup.freebsd.org had just 8.7.6 with the patch in question.

2. The patch in question SHOULD work (Somebody showed that the line
being discussed is not that important)

3. In general (although it does not seem to be the case now),
transition from one version to another one is not a painless process,
because of configuration files  
This situation can be more sofisticated when you have a cluster
of computers with different platforms with common infrastucture.
(I am not getting into details, you know them better than me)

IgoR