Sendmail and HPUX 11.0

[David Craft]

I need to upgrade Sendmail to 8.12.4 along with the Berkeley DB from Sleepycat. Does anyone know of a problem with doing so? I have already installed gcc, Perl and Apache without any problems but Sendmail can be such a bugger, I thought I'd see if anyone has done this or knows of potential problems this may create.

Thanks!!
Dave

[harry d brown jr]

sendmail 8.8.8 is ported on the http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/ site, but not 8.12.4.

live free or die
harry

[David Craft]

I appreciate the thought here and there are some patches in the patches for upgrading to 8.9.3. However anything less than 8.10 is severely susceptible to email forwarding and relay scams. I found this out from an organization called www.ordb.org which tracks such things and very happily announces to the world your server is a free email relay. I have generally found HP-UX so far to be woefully behind in even the most common functions and as such have found it necessary to try to bring it at least partially in to the later part of the century. That's why the query and hopes of someone at least having tried and succeeded or gotten somewhere with it before I dash off myself.

Thanks again,
Dave

[Christopher Caldwell]

8.11.1 is available from
http://www.software.hp.com/ISS_products_list.html

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The build shouldn't be bad (they know about HP-UX). Have fun building the .cf file (if you haven't before ;-). )

[David Craft]

Thanks for the info! I am configuring and installing postfix right now as a test. It is a much faster SMTP server without all the .cf problems. I have installed many versions and maintained and tweaked several sendmail servers to work alone and as various relays, hosts and domain relay controls. I was just hoping someone may have already been down this road, especially installing the new dbm updates.

Thanks VERY much for the info!!

Dave

[Victor_5]

The latest HP supported version is 8.11.1, you can download it from www.software.hp.com.

I did the update on 11.00 a couple of weeks ago for security reason, I run check_patches after that, got a lot of error messages taking about mtime or size does not match, I opened a call with HP, but did not get any helpful feedback, then I decided to convert back to previous 8.9.3, everything was fine, if you do the update for security reason, I don't suggest you do so since the HP Release Notes of v8.11.1 did not mention anything about security, for others reasons, it is up to you, just for your info, good luck.

[David Craft]

I appreciate the reply about HP's sendmail release. I was afraid of that kind of problem. I have already installed and tested Postfix 1.1.10 which works fine and by default is a much more secure and fast SMTP server. Sendmail previous to 8.11.x is unfortunately, very difficult to really lock down for tight security. It can be done, I have on several servers, but it isn't fun. Postfix works extremely well, very secure and fast, 3-4 times faster than sendmail. If you don't need to tweak the rulesets and or do mutiple domain, redirects, I certainly suggest using Postfix instead. It takes about 2 hours to download, build, install and have it up and working. I'd be glad to help anyone considering this as an alternative to Sendmail.
Thanks for all the help!!

Dave