Sendmail 8.12.2
Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.12.2. This version has several portability fixes for problems with setgid(), stat(), etc. compared to 8.12.1. It provides better support for OSs like HP-UX, NetBSD, and AIX, and adds a new port for HP MPE-ix. The daemon also properly collects its children to avoid temporary zombie processes. A complete list of changes can be found in the RELEASE NOTES below.
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8.12.2/8.12.2 2002/01/13 Don't complain too much if stdin, stdout, or stderr are missing at startup, only log an error message. Fix potential problem if an unknown operation mode (character following -b) has been specified. Prevent purgestat from looping even if someone changes the permissions or owner of hoststatus files. Problem noted by Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Properly record dropped connections in persistent host status. Problem noted by Ulrich Windl of the Universitat Regensburg. Remove newlines from recipients read via sendmail -t to prevent SMTP protocol errors when sending the RCPT command. Problem noted by William D. Colburn of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Only log milter body replacements once instead of for each body chunk sent by a filter. Problem noted by Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. In 8.12.0 and 8.12.1, the headers were mistakenly not included in the message size calculation. Problem noted by Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Since 8.12 no longer forks at the SMTP MAIL command, the daemon needs to collect children status to avoid zombie processes. Problem noted by Chris Adams of HiWAAY Informations Services. Shut down "nullserver" and ETRN-only connections after 25 bad commands are issued. This makes it consistent with normal SMTP connections. Avoid duplicate logging of milter rejections. Problem noted by William D. Colburn of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Error and delay DSNs were being sent to postmaster instead of the message sender if the sender had used a deprecated RFC822 source route. Problem noted by Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Fix FallbackMXhost behavior for temporary errors during address parsing. Problem noted by Jorg Bielak from Coastal Web Online. For systems on which stat(2) does not return a value for st_blksize that is the "optimal blocksize for I/O" three new compile time flags are available: SM_IO_MAX_BUF_FILE, SM_IO_MIN_BUF, and SM_IO_MAX_BUF, which define an upper limit for regular files, and a lower and upper limit for other file types, respectively. Fix a potential deadlock if two events are supposed to occur at exactly the same time. Problem noted by Valdis Kletnieks of Virginia Tech. Perform envelope splitting for aliases listed directly in the alias file, not just for include/.forward files. Problem noted by John Beck of Sun Microsystems. Allow selection of queue group for mailq using -qGgroup. Based on patch by John Beck of Sun Microsystems. Make sure cached LDAP connections used my multiple maps in the same process are closed. Patch from Taso N. Devetzis. If running as root, allow reading of class files in protected directories. Patch from Alexander Talos of the University of Vienna. Correct a few LDAP related memory leaks. Patch from David Powell of Sun Microsystems. Allow specification of an empty realm via the authinfo ruleset. This is necessary to interoperate as an SMTP AUTH client with servers that do not support realms when using CRAM-MD5. Problem noted by Bjoern Voigt of TU Berlin. Avoid a potential information leak if AUTH PLAIN is used and the server gets stuck while processing that command. Problem noted by Chris Adams from HiWAAY Informations Services. In addition to printing errors when parsing recipients during command line invocations log them to make it simpler to understand possible DSNs to postmaster. Do not use FallbackMXhost on mailers which have the F=0 flag set. Allow local mailers (F=l) to specify a host for TCP connections instead of forcing localhost. Obey ${DESTDIR} for installation of the client mail queue and submit.cf. Patch from Peter 'Luna' Runestig. Re-enable support for -M option which was broken in 8.12.1. Problem noted by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois University. If a remote server violates the SMTP standard by unexpectedly dropping the connection during an SMTP transaction, stop sending commands. This prevents bogus "Bad file number" recipient status. Problem noted by Allan E Johannesen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Do not use a size estimate of 100 for postmaster bounces, it's almost always too small; do not guess the size at all. New VENDOR_DEC for Compaq/DEC. Requested by James Seagraves of Compaq Computer Corp. Fix DaemonPortOptions IPv6 address parsing such that ::1 works properly. Problem noted by Valdis Kletnieks of Virginia Tech. Portability: Fix IPv6 network interface probing on HP-UX 11.X. Based on patch provided by HP. Mac OS X (aka Darwin) has a broken setreuid() call, but a working seteuid() call. From Daniel J. Luke. Use proper type for a 32-bit integer on SINIX. From Ganu Sachin of Siemens. Set SM_IO_MIN_BUF (4K) and SM_IO_MAX_BUF (8K) for HP-UX. Reduce optimization from +O3 to +O2 on HP-UX 11. This fixes a problem that caused additional bogus characters to be written to the qf file. Problem noted by Tapani Tarvainen. Set LDA_USE_LOCKF by default for UnixWare. Problem noted by Boyd Lynn Gerber. Add support for HP MPE/iX. See sendmail/README for port information. From Mark Bixby of Hewlett-Packard. New portability defines HASNICE, HASRRESVPORT, USE_ENVIRON, USE_DOUBLE_FORK, and NEEDLINK. See sendmail/README for more information. From Mark Bixby of Hewlett-Packard. If an OS doesn't have a method of finding free disk space (SFS_NONE), lie and say there is plenty of space. From Mark Bixby of Hewlett-Packard. Add support for AIX 5.1. From Valdis Kletnieks of Virginia Tech. Fix man page location for NeXTSTEP. From Hisanori Gogota of the NTT/InterCommunication Center. Do not assume that strerror() always returns a string. Problem noted by John Beck of Sun Microsystems. CONFIG: Add OSTYPE(freebsd5) for FreeBSD 5.X, which has removed UUCP from the base operating system. From Mark Murray of FreeBSD Services, Ltd. CONFIG: Add OSTYPE(mpeix) and a generic .mc file for HP MPE/iX systems. From Mark Bixby of Hewlett-Packard. CONFIG: Add support for selecting a queue group for all mailers. Based on proposal by Stephen L. Ulmer of the University of Florida. CONFIG: Fix error reporting for compat_check.m4. Problem noted by Altin Waldmann. CONFIG: Do not override user selections for confRUN_AS_USER and confTRUSTED_USER in FEATURE(msp). From Mark Bixby of Hewlett-Packard. LIBMILTER: Fix bug that prevented the removal of a socket after libmilter terminated. Problem reported by Andrey V. Pevnev of MSFU. LIBMILTER: Fix configuration error that required libsm for linking. Problem noted by Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. LIBMILTER: Portability fix for OpenUNIX. Patch from Larry Rosenman. LIBMILTER: Fix a theoretical memory leak and a possible attempt to free memory twice. LIBSM: Fix a potential segmentation violation in the I/O library. Problem found and analyzed by John Beck and Tim Haley of Sun Microsystems. LIBSM: Do not clear the LDAP configuration information when terminating the mailbox database connection in the LDAP example code. Problem noted by Nikos Voutsinas of the University of Athens. New Files: cf/cf/generic-mpeix.cf cf/cf/generic-mpeix.mc cf/ostype/freebsd5.m4 cf/ostype/mpeix.m4 devtools/OS/AIX.5.1 devtools/OS/MPE-iX include/sm/os/sm_os_mpeix.h libsm/mpeix.c
