Sendmail 8.8.5

[Joe White]

My company has a requirement to run sendmail 8.8.5. Is there a patch that upgrades 8.7.1 to 8.8.5 (or higher) for HPUX 10.20 running on a 700 series box?

[Rick Garland]

Not sure about the 700 series but there are updated versions available on the sendmail.org site

[Rick Garland]

I did find PHNE_17190 for s700_800 that will upgrade to 8.8.6

[Shannon Petry]

Best bet would be to go to www.sendmail.org, and look for OLD Versions.
Dont know why your company would want the inferior less secure version of sendmail, but to each their own :)

SIncerely,
Shannon Petry

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Shannon,

I would bet that it's the same reason you've selected your Personal Quote.

'Microsoft: When do you want to crash today?'

Most Probably a Manager Read that Sendmail 8.8.5 was superior to Microsoft Exchange, and there was the edict! For get the fact that this is OLD Software and does not support Anti-Spamming configurations. 'We don't need no stinking SPAM control!'

But seriously, you should find the Release Notes for the most Currently supported version of Sendmail on your 700 Series and explain to the management team the benefits of current technology. Unless you have a truck load of IBM XT's still in use in the office, it will probably be an easy sell.


Good Luck, Hope that helps!

[Berlene Herren]

Hello Joe,
The supported version of sendmail for 10.20 and 11.0 is 8.9.3, available with a patch.
(PHNE_18979 for 10.20).

Berlene

[Berlene Herren · Accepted solution]

And this patch will upgrade your 8.7.1. don't forget to replace the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file with the one from /usr/newconfig/etc/mail, then stop/restart sendmail afterwards with
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

You can check your version then by issuing
#sendmail -bs
It should show something like this:
220 m31abhvs.atl.hp.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3; Wed, 9 Aug 2000
09:25:36 -0400 (EDT) (ctl C to escape).

Be sure to read /usr/share/doc/sendmail8-9_release.txt
for notes and how-tos on the new features of this version.

Berlene

[Joe White]

Thanks to all. Thank you Berlene for the 'extra' help.