MTA sendmail as separate SD depot for HP-UX 11.00 available?

[Ralph Grothe]

Hello,

a colleague of mine who is more into sendmail than me is currently fumbling with SMTP header rewriting rules on a HP-UX 11.00 box.
While doing this he complained about the pretty dated sendmail version HP-UX 11.00 ships.
Looking up which packages presumably would need to be updated I had to realize that the sendmail MTA seems to be an integral part of the basic HP-UX run time's internet services bundle.

# swlist -l file HPUXEng64RT|grep -E 'sendmail[[:space:]]*$'
HPUXEng64RT.InternetSrvcs.INETSVCS-RUN: /sbin/init.d/sendmail
HPUXEng64RT.InternetSrvcs.INETSVCS-RUN: /sbin/rc1.d/K460sendmail
HPUXEng64RT.InternetSrvcs.INETSVCS-RUN: /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail
HPUXEng64RT.InternetSrvcs.INETSVCS-RUN: /usr/sbin/sendmail

Querying the HP Patch database for sendmail patches I tripped over this one, which I downloaded (together with some 50 MB of corequisite kernel patches):
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHNE_29773&context=hpux:800:11:00
Judging from the intimmidating descriptions of problems this patch should fix it sounds as if sendmail never worked on HP-UX, my colleague couldn't resist to mock.

Probably he's expecting me to install an up to date sendmail MTA.

Is there a separate depot available, or do we have to compile from the sources?

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

Have you seen http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SMAIL811 ?

[Geoff Wild]

Cheryl's link is the current one for HP-UX.

If you want latest, you will have to compile your own.


Here's the rellease notes:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5990-6693/5990-6693.html

Rgds...Geoff

[Ralph Grothe]

Many thanks lads for the links :-)