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In article <3877@bayes.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>, dan@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
(Daniel J. Dick) writes:
> I tried compiling sendmail.5.61 and finally ended up going back to the old
> version of sendmail.mx that was on our machines for the following reasons:
> 
> 1--One of our file servers was previously designated to be our mail
deliverer,
>    and messages sent out from our diskless workstations were set up to go out
>    as if they were coming from that file server instead of the individual
>    workstations so that a common mail area could be shared and all of the
>    workstations would not have to be running a sendmail daemon.
> 
>    After installing sendmail.5.61, the headers suddenly changed so that mail
>    was going out as if it were coming from the workstations causing replies
>    from the outside world to fail.  This happened without making any changes
>    to any sendmail.cf files.

This is not the fault of Berkeley sendmail.  I suspect the only reason
it worked in the first place is because Sun hacked their sendmail to
be "smart" about mail clusters and to rewrite outgoing mail
appropriately.

It needs to be pointed out that different OS vendors have changed
sendmail in significant ways, often breaking things (and adding
security holes) in the process.  Rarely are these changes documented,
and if they are, there is no list of ``differences between our
sendmail and Berkeley sendmail.''  I'm sure they feel as if they are
doing us a favor.

This is the main reason I run Berkeley sendmail on all of our machines
-- not because it always works better, but because that way I can use
the same configuration file for every machine (except the DECnet
gateways).

> 2--The time zones changed from PST to -0800 in the header fields.  I did not
>    know if this was proper, but it was different, and that made me hesitant.

This behavior was recommended by RFC 1123.  The problem is there is
little or no standardization for many timezone names outside the US.
Numeric timezones are completely according to the standards.

> 3--I could not get sendmail.5.61 to compile properly under gcc, even though
>    it compiled under cc.
> 

It's not clear why you chose sendmail.mx over sendmail 5.61 based on
the ability to compile with gcc.  sendmail.mx was certainly compiled
with cc rather than gcc.

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