> From: J.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 4:43 AM
> To: RedHat List
> Subject: Re: sendmail-8.9.0
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 11:56:03PM +0800, Hoe-Teck Wee wrote:
> > Hello, Richard!
> >
> > Just some ideas; I haven't tried to compile and install
> sendmail-8.90 nor
> > fetchmail-4.4.9 ...
> >
> > How about downloading the sendmail rpm from ftp.redhat.com at
> >
> >
> pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/Networking/Daemons/sendmail-8.9
.0-1.i386.rpm
> >
>
> Can anyone tell me if they have used this RPM? Does it
> overwrite existing
> config files? Is it safe for a newbie like me to try?
> Sendmail seems so
> critical/complicated, I have been hesitant to try an upgrade,
> for fear of
> hosing something! :)
>
Well I tried to RPM install it.
As I am a great liker of RedHat I found this RPM to be a BAD idea
(especially if your a newbie) as there is 0 (zero) easy to read
documentation, no help on www.redhat.com and no help at www.sendmail.org. So
I would not advise anyone to install this.
One of the more iritating (and possibly dangerous) things is that it seems
to no longer be using the ip_allow, host_allow, or relay_allow security
structure! This may be the way the person that built the RPM had it setup on
his system but I'm not sure. Either way I can't let our's be set that way!
In the end I had to go back to 8.8.7.
An intresting point: the new RedHat5.1 distribution still includes sendmail
8.8.7(!) so I would guess that even RedHat hasen't gone over to sendmail
8.9.0.
My advice: stay with 8.8.7 as given with your RedHat distribution. Get the
source code for 8.9.0 and start learning how to set it up so you can have it
with the same security that 8.8.7 has.
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