Sendmail - 8.14.2

Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.14.2 which fixes some problems, e.g.,

For a full list of changes see the release notes down below.

Please send bug reports and general feedback to one of the usual addresses.

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                        SENDMAIL RELEASE NOTES
      $Id: RELEASE_NOTES,v 8.1909 2007/10/31 16:04:13 ca 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.

8.14.2/8.14.2   2007/11/01
        If a message was queued and it contained 8 bit characters in
                a From: or To: header, then those characters could be
                "mistaken" for internal control characters during a queue
                run and trigger various consistency checks.  Problem
                noted by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois University.
        If MaxMimeHeaderLength is set to a value greater than 0 (which
                it is by default) then even if the Linelimit parameter
                is 0, sendmail corrupted in the non-transfer-encoding
                case every MAXLINE-1 characters.  Patch from John Gardiner
                Myers of Proofpoint.
        Setting the suboption DeliveryMode for DaemonPortOptions did not
                work in earlier 8.14 versions.
        Note: DeliveryMode=interactive is silently converted to
                background if a milter can reject or delete a recipient.
                Prior to 8.14 this happened only if milter could delete
                recipients.
        ClientRate should trigger when the limit was exceeded (as
                documented), not when it was reached.  Patch from
                John Beck of Sun Microsystems.
        Force a queue run for -qGqueuegroup even if no runners are
                specified (R=0) and forking (F=f) is requested.
        When multiple results are requested for a DNS map lookup
                (-z and -Z), return only those that are relevant for
                the query (not also those in the "additional section".)
        If the message transfer time to sendmail (when acting as server)
                exceeds Timeout.queuewarn or Timeout.queuereturn and
                the message is refused (by a milter), sendmail previously
                created a delivery status notification (DSN).  Patch
                from Doug Heath of The Hertz Corporation.
        A code change in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.22 for sasl_decode64() requires
                the MTA to deal with some input (i.e., "=") itself.
                Problem noted by Eliot Lear.
        sendmail counted a delivery as successful if PIPELINING is
                compiled in but not offered by the server and the
                delivery failed temporarily.  Patch from Werner Wiethege.
        If getting the result of an LDAP query times out then close the
                map so it will be reopened on the next lookup.  This
                should help "failover" configurations that specify more
                than one LDAP server.
        If check_compat returns $#discard then a "savemail panic" could
                be triggered under some circumstances (e.g., requiring
                a system which does not have the compile time flag
                HASFLOCK set). Based on patch by Motonori Nakamura
                of National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
        If a milter rejected a recipient, the count for nrcpts= in the
                logfile entry might have been wrong.  Problem found by
                Petra Humann of TU Dresden.
        If a milter invoked smfi_chgfrom() where ESMTP arguments are not
                NULL, the message body was lost.  Patch from Motonori
                Nakamura of National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
        sendmail(8) had a bogus space in -qGname.  Patch from Peng Haitao.
        CONTRIB: buildvirtuser: Preserve ownership and permissions when
                replacing files.
        CONTRIB: buildvirtuser: Skip dot-files (e.g., .cvsignore) when
                reading the /etc/mail/virtusers/ directory.
        CONTRIB: buildvirtuser: Emit warnings instead of exiting where
                appropriate.
        LIBMILTER: Fix ABI backwards compatibility so milters compiled
                against an older libmilter.so shared library can use an
                8.14 libmilter.so shared library.
        LIBMILTER: smfi_version() did not properly extract the patchlevel
                from the version number, however, the returned value was
                correct for the current libmilter version.