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Re: Sendmail vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sat Jul 16 00:08:34 1994

To: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Cc: Matt Braun <mhbraun@MIT.EDU>, holes@MIT.EDU, release-77@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 94 00:08:02 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>

>> The problem with sendmail 8.6.9 is that it isn't completely compatible
>> with sendmail 5.61 --- not all old sendmail.cf files will work with
>> sendmail 8.  

I know that, which is why I phrased the suggestion the way I did.  It
says that a standard public machine uses a sendmail athena compiles,
which is presumably tested with athena sendmail.cf files.  Customized
machines can choose which they want.

		Marc

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