From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 06:01:56 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 316EB16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E075A43FDF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:01:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr364-a04.otenet.gr [195.167.109.36]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9FD1kWO002832; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:01:47 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9FD1kBP001195; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:01:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h9FD1j8T001194; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:01:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:01:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: bas Message-ID: <20031015130145.GA1037@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 13:01:56 -0000 On 2003-10-15 13:09, bas wrote: > 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. Maybe yes, maybe no. Apparently a lot of the security fixes have been merged back to RELENG_4[1], so you might find it easier to just CVSup and rebuild your base-system sendmail. I've been away for quite some time, but before you start the port installation check & verify that it is really necessary. See also -------- [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/sendmail/src/parseaddr.c