SUMMARY: Sendmail version

Richard Schulting (richard.schulting@idsys.nl)
Sun, 11 May 1997 15:18:30 +0100

Thanks to: Karl Vogel, Igor Kolker, Rich Kulawiec, Kent Arnott, Ric Anderson,
Rich Pieri, Brian Wells, Rick von Richter, Jonathan Loh, David
Davisson,Stephen Harris, Fred (admin@dcwill.com), and Daniel Baker.
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Most of you replied with the well known "telnet host 25" line. I wasn't sure
if this line gave the correct version though. According to Rick Anderson
however the following is true:

220 somehost ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.3; Fri, 9 May 1997 21:57:10 -0700 (MST)
The 8.8.5/8.8.3 is sendmail version 8.8.5, using config file version 8.8.3.

Also I am advised to upgrade to sendmail 8.8.5 (ftp.cs.berkeley.edu) and BIND
4.9.5 (ftp.vix.com). It seems that most of you are running these, so I
probably won't end up frustrated because things don't work. (thanks to those
of you, who are offering help, i'll ask for it only when needed...)

Regards,

Richard Schulting
NetCom Manager
Astron/ID Systems
Holland

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Original question:

I'm in the preparing-proces of altering our sendmail to accept (and forward)
email from guest domains on our Host to their other email accounts (we are a
small content provider beside other regular business).

The host is a Netra i5 running solaris 2.4 (with the latest update cluster).

When I use /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d35.12, it reports sendmail version 8.6,
this is the same as before the cluster update. On a second Sparc 4 running
Solaris 2.5 (with the latest cluster update), also the version seems to be
8.6.

I wonder, is this version comming from the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf or isn't Sun
upgrading to higher versions. I think I need a higher version to create a sort
of virtual alias.db file...?