[comp.sys.sun] Sendmail questions

MOORE@MIDD.BITNET (11/23/88)

Sorry to bring up religious matters in polite company ...

I'm something of a junior mail hacker, and I've gotten curious about the
current revs and availability of certain mail handlers.  Questions for the
masses are:

1) Any one know the latest rev of Sendmail ?  I know 5.59 exists, is there
anything beyond ??

2) How about the IDA Sendmail enhancements available at from xerox
machines (I forget the exact one) ?  I know about 1.2.something.

3) What's the state of affairs as far as MH and Elm go ??  I know these
things exist, but that's about it ?

4) Any other favorites out there ?

Please send all responses directly to me, as I'm way behind in my news
reading.  I'll summarize everything if folks are interested.

Apologies to folks getting this twice through info-unix and sun-spots --
just trying to cover a large readership.

Thanks in advance,
Evan R. Moore
Academic Computing Services
Middlebury College
MOORE@MIDD on the BITNET
91erm@cc.williams.edu is a past life which forwards to my new home.  Internet
 folks feel free to use it.

(Spelling errors can't be helped.  I have no primary language.)

prc@uunet.uu.net (Robert Claeson) (12/10/88)

> 1) Any one know the latest rev of Sendmail ?  I know 5.59 exists, is there
> anything beyond ??

Sendmail 5.59 is the latest I know of.

> 2) How about the IDA Sendmail enhancements available at from xerox
> machines (I forget the exact one) ?  I know about 1.2.something.

Lennart Lovstrand sent me his IDA kit 1.2.5 a few months ago. I believe it
has now been posted to comp.sources.unix. However, he has just released
1.2.8, but he haven't posted it. I beliveve he intends to add even more
features before the next official release. It can, however, be ftp:ed from
Xerox (Lennart Lovstrand works for Xerox at their EuroPARC in the U.K.).

-prc

frank@morgan.com (Frank Wortner) (12/20/88)

mcvax!ERBE.SE!prc@uunet.uu.net (Robert Claeson) writes:
>> 1) Any one know the latest rev of Sendmail ?  I know 5.59 exists, is there
>> anything beyond ??
>
>Sendmail 5.59 is the latest I know of.

There is now a later version.  I quote Gene Spafford's
(spaf@cs.purdue.edu) USENET article (5644@medusa.cs.purdue.edu):

"The new version of sendmail will be version 5.61.  It is scheduled to be
available after December 12.  *Any* version prior to 5.59, even if patched
.. has some security problems and should be replaced."

Would anyone at Sun like to comment?

	Frank