Re: Re: [LI] slackware96 y2k compatibility (fwd)

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bilal Bhai

>  Chances of y2k incompatibility in "Slackware96" are slim to none;
> there are no y2k problems of which I am aware in sendmail.
>    Slackware Linux Project | info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sendmail is Y2K compliant - no problems.  However, there is 
another angle which you have to consider.

As I have kept mentioning on LI and elsewhere - sendmail 8.6 or 
8.7 (which is what you get with *nix builds of 1996 or so) is, in the 
words of sendmail.org, "Insecure, Unsupported and should NOT be 
used on a production mailserver".  

Sendmail 8.8.x is not all that better - due to lots of security holes 
(including buffer overflow attacks, lots of relay vulnerablities etc)

Suggest you move to 8.9.3 ASAP and (this is important) rebuild 
your sendmail.cf as soon as you upgrade your sendmail.

--s



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