From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 04:09:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B5C16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceblue.nl (iceblue.xs4all.nl [213.84.186.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B0643FCB for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:09:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from idunno@iceblue.nl) Received: from localhost (zealoot@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iceblue.nl (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9FB97b9046391 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:09:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from idunno@iceblue.nl) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:09:10 +0200 (West-Europa (standaardtijd)) From: bas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: X-Warning: UNAuthenticated Sender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: upgrading sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:09:09 -0000 hi, i am thinking of upgrading my base sendmail 8.12.8 (the one that came with FreeBSD 4.8) to the one in the ports collection , which is now 8.12.10. mainly because there are some security issues from 8.12.8 and i thought upgrading the whole thing would be easier than patching the source and all. i was wondering what are the main things to keep in mind, like making changes in the configuration or moving some binaries? i looked all over the net (...) but haven;t found much useful information. thanks, b.