[1215] in bugtraq
Re: Lotus Notes (was Re: Sendmail Fixkit)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Software Test Account)
Thu Mar 9 18:46:14 1995
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:44:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Software Test Account <softtest@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199502261217.MAA23860@sophos.demon.co.uk>
To: Matthew J Brown <mjb@sophos.com>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Matthew J Brown wrote:
> You don't *absolutely* have to output icky names like this to the world,
> however; our outgoing gateway rewrites the addresses to
> <initials>@sophos.com. All users here except me do their mail through
> Notes. The only way to do this, however, is OS/2 Sendmail sendmail.cf
> hackery. (yes, the Lotus Notes SMTP Gateway is a bag on the side of
> OS/2 sendmail). It's an ancient version of sendmail, too; there isn't
> even support for database macros to do this (more) cleanly.
>
> I personally find it worrying that the Notes smtp gateway won't run on
> anything except OS/2 (whose TCP/IP implementation seems to be very flaky)
> and absolutely requires OS/2's sendmail instead of having its own
> SMTP thing (surely it can't have been too difficult to write their own?),
> and even more so that OS/2 sendmail is based on an ancient UNIX version,
> no doubt with all the known bugs. The damn thing falls over at least
> once a day, too, takes an *age* to page back in every time it gets swapped,
> and is basically a *lot* of trouble.
>
> -Matt
>
Can anyone cast a little more light on the potential problems with respect
to the Lotus Notes (cc-MAIL) SMTP gateway.
I need to make a rapid assessment of this package. Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated.
>
Erik
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