OSX & sendmail (8.12.9)

[Ronald Florence]

Apple has not yet released a security patch for the newest sendmail
issue, which was announced by www.sendmail.org and CERT on 2003-03-29.
This is a serious hole, and is not the same as the one fixed by the
2003-03-03 security patch from Apple.

Users with sendmail configurations that are Internet accessible (i.e.,
if someone on the Internet can do `telnet your-ip-address 25' and get
your sendmail HELO greeting) may want to upgrade to sendmail-8.12.9,
which fixes the newest security hole. Be sure to check the MD5
checksum and PGP signatures on the download -- the sendmail source was
dangerously hacked not too long ago. Sendmail 8.12.9 builds without
modification on OSX 10.2.4 and is a drop-in replacement for Apple's
earlier version.
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Ronald Florence www.18james.com

[hughchal]

Ronald Florence wrote:

> Sendmail 8.12.9 builds without
> modification on OSX 10.2.4 and is a drop-in replacement for Apple's
> earlier version.

Any pointers about building this release (newbie builder)?

Thanks,
HC
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h u g h c h a l A T e i r c o m D O T n e t

[Ronald Florence]

hughchal <s...@sig.com> writes:

> > Sendmail 8.12.9 builds without
> > modification on OSX 10.2.4 and is a drop-in replacement for Apple's
> > earlier version.
>
>
> Any pointers about building this release (newbie builder)?

To build and install the sendmail 8.12.9 binary:

pushd .../sendmail-8.12.9/sendmail
sh Build
sudo cp /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail-old
sudo cp ../obj.Darwin.6.4.PowerMacintosh/sendmail/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail restart
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Ronald Florence www.18james.com

[hughchal]

Ronald Florence wrote:

> To build and install the sendmail 8.12.9 binary:

Many thanks.