What was new wrt e-mail?
Last Update 2004-08-11
This is an archive of stuff which
was new at same time,
for those who are interested in history...
sendmail 8.11.7
is available.
If you run any earlier sendmail 8.11 version, please upgrade to
8.11.7
and apply the required
security patch.
sendmail 8.9.3 available
sendmail 8.9.3
is available (1999-02-04),
The only major change since 8.9.2 is a fix for the headers denial of
service attack posted to BugTraq.
See the
RELEASE_NOTES
for changes since 8.9.2.
sendmail 8.10.0.Beta10 available
The next public
beta (10)
of
sendmail 8.10
is available (1999-12-10).
sendmail 8.10.0.Beta6 available
Here it is:
the release
with the most new features since
sendmail V8.
sendmail 8.9.2 available
sendmail 8.9.2
is available (1999-01-01).
See the
RELEASE_NOTES
(HTML version, PGP won't work)
for changes since 8.9.1.
sendmail 8.9.2.Beta4 available
sendmail 8.9.2.Beta4
is available (1998-12-22).
It contains some
small bug fixes
(HTML version, PGP won't work)
(wierd relaying cases, interactions with
DB 2, etc).
sendmail 8.9.1 has been released
sendmail 8.9.1
has been released (1998-07-02).
It contains some
small bug fixes
(installation etc).
To quote
Eric Allman:
Most changes are small
bug fixes; perhaps the most important change is that the updated
license has been modified to clarify some of the terms.
sendmail 8.9.1 has a
bug with respect to the prevention of unauthorized relay attempts
which can be fixed by
a patch for cf/m4/proto.m4.
There is a small bug in 8.9.{0,1} wrt overriding the
RBL
which can be fixed by
another patch for cf/m4/proto.m4.
sendmail 8.9.0 has been released
sendmail 8.9.0
has been released (1998-05-20).
It turns off
relaying
by default,
and provides
several new features
against
UBE.
See the
announcement
for some details,
the
RELEASE NOTES
for all changes,
or below for other features (and links).
BTW:
sendmail is now a trademark of
Sendmail, Inc.
sendmail 8.9 Beta5 has been released
sendmail 8.9 beta5
has been released (1998-03-31).
See the
release notes
for all details,
or below for other features (and links).
sendmail 8.9 Beta3 has been released
sendmail 8.9 beta3
has been released (1998-03-17).
It contains
several new features;
e.g.,
it turns off
relaying
by default,
and it provides measures against
UBE.
See the
release notes
for all details.
CNN Interactive
has an article about the new release:
Spam foes get new weapon - March 17, 1998,
as well as
Wired News.
sendmail 8.8 available
sendmail 8.8
has been released
on
several FTP servers.
I've put together some of the
changes
I find most interesting.
The
RELEASE_NOTES
have a complete listing.
The
Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide
is available in HTML format for sendmail 8.8.
The
README
file from sendmail/cf describes the configuration options
for your sendmail.cf file,
if you generate it from a
.mc
file with the m4 macros.
Unfortunately,
spamming
is a big issue today.
Use
the new check_* rulesets in sendmail 8.8
to fight junk e-mail (UCE).
[(links)]
[Hints]
[Avoiding UBE]
[cf/README]
[New]
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Claus Aßmann
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