paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (10/18/90)
Archive-name: uiuc-sendmail/17-Oct-90
Original-posting-by: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Original-subject: Sendmail V5.65 + IDA 1.3.5 available for anon-FTP
Archive-site: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.50]
Archive-directory: /pub
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
A new release of the UIUC/NIU version of IDA sendmail is now available for
anon-FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/sendmail-5.65+IDA-1.3.5.tar.Z .
The original IDA enhancements, plus the UIUC/NIU and contributed changes,
provide the following:
* support for mail11v3 for DECnet sites (optional)
* support for Dbm(3) files - dbm, ndbm, sdbm, mdbm, and gdbm
- allows pathalias database to be directly used
- allows choice of mailer to be table driven
- allows UUCP and domain name aliasing
- optional support to access Sun NIS (aka YP) DBM databases
* improved support of MX records
* split header rewriting between envelope and headers
* improved test mode
* support for multi-token matches in .cf macros and classes
* batched SMTP support
* allow set (class) declarations to use programs as well as files
to define a set
* delayed macro evauation using $&x syntax
* RFC822 quoted macro expansion using $!x syntax
* an excellent general purpose m4 template for .cf file generation
- supports pure UUCP site requirements
- supports pure Internet site requirements
- supports a hybrid of UUCP site and Internet site
- supports hidden and isolated local area networks connected
via a gateway (either UUCP or IP) to the Internet
- provides NIS (aka YP) aliases (optional)
- provides DECnet gateway support
- supports genericfrom database mapping actual user names to
generic user names.
- supports pathalias database
- support UUCP and domain name aliasing
This release incorporates the minor changes from 5.64 to 5.65 plus a raft
of minor bug fixes, typo corrections, and portability enhancements. It
has been installed (and operational) on just about every type of UNIX
platform available within the University of Illinois.
Changes in 5.65/1.3.5 from the previous release:
Installed changes to main.c, savemail.c and version.c from Berkeley V5.64
to V5.65.
Added mdbm and gdbm support. Rationalized #ifdef's for *DBM. gdbm
can be fetched either from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in the gnu directory or
from aeneas.mit.edu in pub/gnu.
getloadavg.c was absorbed back into conf.c since few architectures used
it. It's been made part of the #ifdef context that uses it.
flock() emulation (provided by Andy Litton of Victoria University of
Wellington, NZ) via lockf() now done more transparently. All files
to be exclusively locked are now open "r+" (read/write). Many systems
that provide flock() use lockf() semantics. These require files to be
opened for writing to obtain exclusive locks.
Bruce Lilly (bruce%balilly@sonyd1.broadcast.sony.com) provided unixpc and
many System 5 changes selected via #define SYSTEM5 in conf.h. These have
been very helpful for HP-UX. He also contributed varargs versions of
many routines (see err.c and conf.c) selected via #define VSPRINTF in
conf.h and many sundry glitch fixes (extraneous newlines in syslog() and
putline() calls, errors in comments, etc). Thank you Bruce.
A potentially serious bug was scattered throughout the code. The third
argument to expand() in macro.c is the buffer limit, i.e., the address
of the last usable position in buf. In many cases this was expressed as
expand(str, buf, buf[sizeof buf], s) which is the address just beyond the
end of the array. These were all changed to use buf[sizeof buf - 1].
/pbp
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Paul Pomes
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