| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) | 
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference | 
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM | 
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 10068 | 
| Total number of notes: | 35879 | 
    Hello,
    
    this is a probably a simple question but I'm not a sendmail expert.
    
    A customer called me saying that they need sendmail V8.8 so that they
    can implemet a mail relay.
    
    I checked on the spd and found that our sendmail is based on 4.3BSD
    sendmail V5.65 with IDA enhancements, I checked in the network manual
    and found we can define:
    - a mail relay to which the mail is forwared to
    - a mail server
    
    Does 'mail relay' = 'mail server'?
    Can we build a mail relay on Digital Unix 3.2C?
    
    Thanks,
    Gea
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| 9905.1 | HYDRA::SMITH | Tom Smith ZKO1-3/H42 +1 603 881-6329 | Wed May 21 1997 19:46 | 14 | |
|     sendmail V8.8 is not required in order to have a mail relay, nor is
    sendmail the only relay software around. All versions of sendmail are
    relays.
    
    However, sendmail V8 (and especially V8.8) provides a great deal more
    functionality than sendmail V5.65. If they know what those extra
    features are and if they want or need them, sendmail V8.8.5 is
    available from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/ . They'll have to
    build it from the sources (easy) and build their own configuration
    files from the M4 files provided (buy the O'Reilly book on sendmail or
    hire a consultant). A future version of Digital UNIX will include
    sendmail V8, but the latest snapshot I've seen is based on V8.7.6.
    
    -Tom
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| 9905.2 | thanks | MLNCSC::VOCI | Thu May 22 1997 05:22 | 3 | |
|     Thanks a lot for your responce.
    
    Gea
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| 9905.3 | LEXS01::GINGER | Ron Ginger | Thu May 22 1997 09:03 | 7 | |
|     >A future version of Digital UNIX will include
    >sendmail V8, but the latest snapshot I've seen is based on V8.7.6.
    
    
    Ah good, in a 'future version' we will have a feature our customers
    need that is already 'the old version'
    
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| 9905.4 | HYDRA::SMITH | Tom Smith ZKO1-3/H42 +1 603 881-6329 | Thu May 22 1997 12:07 | 7 | |
|     re: .-1
    
    I wouldn't get too upset. There are 5 or 6 minor versions of sendmail
    released every year. There were 3 versions in December and January
    alone. :-)
    
    -Tom
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