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In article <1193@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
> Many readers here will no doubt be interested in today's comp.sources.unix
> posting, the IDA Sendmail kit:
> 
> | Submitted-by: Lennart Lovstrand <lovstran@arisia.xerox.com>
> | Posting-number: Volume 16, Issue 73
> | Archive-name: ida2/part01
> | 
> | Hello & Welcome to the IDA* Sendmail Enhancement Kit (rev 1.2.5).

Please note that this version was sent out before the time of the
Arpanet Worm and therefore still has the SMTP debug command enabled.
The lastest revision of the Kit, 1.2.8, doesn't.  It also includes
some improved error reporting code for SMTP delivery and a bugfix for
cases when network connections prematurely are closed, causing sendmail
to dump core.  Available as stated below (sorry, no patch update yet):

> | If you are on the ARPA Internet, you may choose to retrieve the Kit
> | in compressed tar format from ~ftp/pub1/ida.tar.Z on Arisia.Xerox.COM
> | using anonymous ftp.  A compressed executable binary of IDA sendmail for
> | Sun-3/SunOS 3.x is also available as ~ftp/pub1/ida-sendmail-sun3.Z.

Now also available is a compressed binary for Sun-4/SunOS 4.0 in
pub1/ida-sendmail-sun4.Z.  Paranoic people should check that all files
have been written by uid 400.

  ftp> ls "-l pub1/ida*"
  200 PORT command okay.
  150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (13.1.100.206,2111) (0 bytes).
  -rw-r--r--  1 400        116189 Nov 11 02:55 pub1/ida-sendmail-sun3.Z
  -rw-r--r--  1 400         99469 Nov 11 02:52 pub1/ida-sendmail-sun4.Z
  -rw-r--r--  1 400        190939 Nov 11 03:21 pub1/ida.tar.Z
  226 Transfer complete.

Different people has written to me with propositions on how to improve
the MX lookup code -- to those: thanks for your suggestions & patches,
but sorry for not having responded yet.  I haven't included any of it in
the Kit because the solutions offered doesn't seem to fit with the
current use of $[...$] for both name canonicalization and as a predicate
for SMTP/TCP deliverability.  I hope to get around to do something about
it eventually though...

...or convert to smail-3 or Zmailer or...
(one of these days, you know)

> Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.

Yes, please do!  And thanks, Rich.

--Lennart <Lovstrand.EuroPARC@Xerox.COM>
Rank Xerox EuroPARC, 61 Regent St, Cambridge, CB2 1AB, U.K.
(God, it is horrible to telnet over satellite links!)