Some ancient stuff there Paul. In general, I would say upgrading
will not break majordomo, but that is extremely bold. Basically,
"if it aint broke, dont fix it".
I do recommend upgrading for the sense of y2k compatibility, but
this also depends on your needs, existing policies, and usage patterns.
If you just have a little 486 box with nothing else to do except
majordomo, you could probably tar up the whole box to another machine,
then upgrade the OS to 7.1, sendmail to 8.11.2, and majordomo to 1.94.5.
Sendmail 8.11.6 would be the next upgrade.
If you or anyone before you has done ANY customization to sendmail or
majordomo on your existing server, you should fully understand what
was trying to be accomplished with the modification(s), and check back
with this list (and possible the sendmail site) to see what solutions
are being used to solve those problems today.
If your only reason for the upgrade is to prevent spam abuse or an
open mail relay, why not just close it off to all but local trusted
users with a firewall? Or add rules/filters to sendmail to only
accept mail that will be delivered locally. Defining local includes
delivery to executables such as majordomo.
Dan Liston
"Paul L. Schumacher" wrote:
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> I am running Majordomo 1.93 on a redhat 5.1 machine with sendmail 8.6xx
>
> Our network people claim that my machine can relay email ... we cannot get
> it to do so. They want me to put on sendmail 8.11.6.
>
> Will changing sendmail to 8.11.6 break my majordomo???
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul L. Schumacher
> Winona State University
> Computer Science Department
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