[OT] Old sendmail versions (8.6.0 in particular)

[William Park]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:21:29PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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. :)

Problem solved, Byron.  No one is using THAT version.  So, no need to
test it.

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