[OT] Old sendmail versions (8.6.0 in particular)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:14:21AM -0500, Byron Sonne wrote:
> Oh, there's 8.6 machines out there... but I think running a Sun-ified 
> version of sendmail, so perhaps not quite the same thing :) Let's hope 
> not the same thing!

The sendmail FAQ does mention that vendor version numbers often mean
very little other than what they were once based on.

> I came across that .obsolete directory too; bummed out as it seemed like 
> a really good hit.
> 
> It's work related - we do a thorough job, and that means tracking down 
> god-awful old versions of software frequently. Makes for a good dose of 
> nostalgia too - like the good old days, when you tweaked makefiles and 
> headers manually, piped files to m4... until ./configure scripts came 
> and made us all lazy :)

sendmail 8.6 predates the use of m4 for the configuration of sendmail.
You had to write the .cf files yourself it appears. :)

Len Sorensen
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