Re: 507 and distributed sendmail

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

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:04:17 +1100

"Stuart J. Browne" <stuart@promed.com.au> wrote in message
news:3fc69881$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> 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.

I've since found this as /usr/bin/smrsh, but still..

> 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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