Sendmail 8.12.7
Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.12.7. It contains a fix for smrsh, support for Berkeley DB 4.1 (requires at least 4.1.25), fixes to enforce STARTTLS restrictions between sessions/transactions, some config file changes to deal with bogus DNS entries and to enforce tls_client restrictions, as well as a change to the default submit.cf file to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost as the address of the MTA.
For a complete list of changes see the release notes down below.
Please send bug reports to sendmail-bugs@sendmail.org as usual.
2002-12-30: Note: if you encounter the following error
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()while creating a cf file then please apply this patch to cf/m4/proto.m4 and try again.
Note: We have changed the way we digitally sign the source code distributions to simplify verification: in contrast to earlier versions two .sig files are provided, one each for the gzip'ed version and the compressed version. That is, instead of signing the tar file, we sign the compressed/gzip'ed files, so you do not need to uncompress the file before checking the signature.
This version can be found at
ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.12.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.12.7.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.12.7.tar.Z ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.12.7.tar.Z.sig
and the usual mirror sites.
MD5 signatures:
447c93b8ad6dad717a917aa7db9917ff sendmail.8.12.7.tar.gz b6f4325f788d56bb3c20bfdd4ba65191 sendmail.8.12.7.tar.gz.sig b956a8d772c31d65c15c4dbab585b9a5 sendmail.8.12.7.tar.Z 7a9c80bc097ccce1f8f500d7185db9bc sendmail.8.12.7.tar.Z.sig
You either need the first two files or the third and fourth, i.e., the gzip'ed version or the compressed version and the corresponding .sig file. The PGP signature was created using the Sendmail Signing Key/2002, available on the web site or on the public key servers.
Since sendmail 8.11 and later includes hooks to cryptography, the following information from OpenSSL applies to sendmail as well.
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SENDMAIL RELEASE NOTES
$Id: 8.12.7.html,v 1.4 2006/04/12 21:51:46 eric Exp $
This listing shows the version of the sendmail binary, the version of the sendmail configuration files, the date of release, and a summary of the changes in that release.
8.12.7/8.12.7 2002/12/29 Properly clean up macros to avoid persistence of session data across various connections. This could cause session oriented restrictions, e.g., STARTTLS requirements, to erroneously allow a connection. Problem noted by Tim Maletic of Priority Health. Do not lookup MX records when sorting the MSP queue. The MSP only needs to relay all mail to the MTA. Problem found by Gary Mills of the University of Manitoba. Do not restrict the length of connection information to 100 characters in some logging statements. Problem noted by Erik Parker. When converting an enhanced status code to an exit status, use EX_CONFIG if the first digit is not 2, 4, or 5 or if *.1.5 is used. Reset macro $x when receiving another MAIL command. Problem noted by Vlado Potisk of Wigro s.r.o. Don't bother setting the permissions on the build area statistics file, the proper permissions will be put on the file at install time. This fixes installation over NFS for some users. Problem noted by Martin J. Dellwo of 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Fix problem of decoding SASLv2 encrypted data. Problem noted by Alex Deiter of Mobile TeleSystems, Komi Republic. Log milter socket open errors at MilterLogLevel 1 or higher instead of 11 or higher. Print early system errors to the console instead of silently exiting. Problem noted by James Jong of IBM. Do not process a queue group if Runners is set to 0, regardless of whether F=f or sendmail is run in verbose mode (-v). The use of -qGname will still force queue group "name" to be run even if Runners=0. Change the level for logging the fact that a daemon is refusing connections due to high load from LOG_INFO to LOG_NOTICE. Patch from John Beck of Sun Microsystems. Use location information for submit.cf from NetInfo (/locations/sendmail/submit.cf) if available. Re-enable ForkEachJob which was lost in 8.12.0. Problem noted by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois University. Make behavior of /canon in debug mode consistent with usage in rulesets. Patch from Shigeno Kazutaka of IIJ. Fix a potential memory leak in envelope splitting. Problem noted by John Majikes of IBM. Do not try to share an mailbox database LDAP connection across different processes. Problem noted by Randy Kunkee. Fix logging for undelivered recipients when the SMTP connection times out during message collection. Problem noted by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois University. Avoid problems with QueueSortOrder=random due to problems with qsort() on Solaris (and maybe some other operating systems). Problem noted by Stephan Schulz of Gruner+Jahr.. If -f "" is specified, set the sender address to "<>". Problem noted by Matthias Andree. Fix formatting problem of footnotes for plain text output on some versions of tmac. Patch from Per Hedeland of Ericsson. Portability: Berkeley DB 4.1 support (requires at least 4.1.25). Some getopt(3) implementations in GNU/Linux are broken and pass a NULL pointer to an option which requires an argument, hence the builtin version of sendmail is used instead. This can be overridden by using -DSM_CONF_GETOPT=0. Problem noted by Vlado Potisk of Wigro s.r.o. Support for nph-1.2.0 from Mark D. Roth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Support for FreeBSD 5.0's MAC labeling from Robert Watson of the TrustedBSD Project. Support for reading the number of processors on an IRIX system from Michel Bourget of SGI. Support for UnixWare 7.1 based on input from Larry Rosenman. Interix support from Nedelcho Stanev of Atlantic Sky Corporation. Update Mac OS X/Darwin portability from Wilfredo Sanchez. CONFIG: Enforce tls_client restrictions even if delay_checks is used. Problem noted by Malte Starostik. CONFIG: Deal with an empty hostname created via bogus DNS entries to get around access restrictions. Problem noted by Kai Schlichting. CONFIG: Use FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]') in submit.mc by default to avoid problems with hostname resolution for localhost which on many systems does not resolve to 127.0.0.1 (or ::1 for IPv6). If you do not use IPv4 but only IPv6 then you need to change submit.mc accordingly, see the comment in the file itself. CONFIG: Set confDONT_INIT_GROUPS to True in submit.mc to avoid error messages from initgroups(3) on AIX 4.3 when sending mail to non-existing users. Problem noted by Mark Roth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CONFIG: Allow local_procmail to override local_lmtp settings. CONFIG: Always allow connections from 127.0.0.1 or IPv6:::1 to relay. CONTRIB: cidrexpand: Deal with the prefix tags that may be included in access_db. CONTRIB: New version of doublebounce.pl contributed by Leo Bicknell. LIBMILTER: On Solaris libmilter may get into an endless loop if an error in the communication from/to the MTA occurs. Patch from Gurusamy Sarathy of Active State. LIBMILTER: Ignore EINTR from sigwait(3) which may happen on Tru64. Patch from from Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz of Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris. MAIL.LOCAL: Fix a truncation race condition if the close() on the mailbox fails. Problem noted by Tomoko Fukuzawa of Sun Microsystems. MAIL.LOCAL: Fix a potential file descriptor leak if mkstemp(3) fails. Patch from John Beck of Sun Microsystems. SMRSH: SECURITY: Only allow regular files or symbolic links to be used for a command. Problem noted by David Endler of iDEFENSE, Inc. New Files: devtools/OS/Interix include/sm/bdb.h
