507 and distributed sendmail

From: Stuart J. Browne (stuart_at_promed.com.au)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:36:23 +1100

Howdy..

Well, 507's distribution of sendmail is just broken. Fun really ;)

Some things to note:

Out of the box, it won't accept unresolvable domains. If the machine is
not on the internet, this causes issues.

Out of the box, it has the 'smrsh' feature enabled. SCO doesn't ship
'/usr/lib/smrsh' of which the configuration requires.

The necessary 'm4' files to change these in a 'nice' fashion are also not
shipped.

Simply put, sendmail is unusable out-of-the-box on a SCO 507 machine.

This is with or without MP1 incidentally.

The security patch (CSSA-2003-SCO.6) only provides fixed sendmail binaries,
still not enough to get it working properly.

Is there something I'm missing, either from the install media, or some
download somwhere which I can't find (short of sendmail source, and
re-compilation) that will provide the ability to get it working (without
resorting to manually hacking the CF file) ?

bkx

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