My personal patch for sendmail 8.12.8 on RedHat 9

[Adam Gibson]

David Eisenstein wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> One of the reasons your original post with the patch didn't make it out on
> the list yet is that it was around 70 kiB in size, and the list software
> is set up to allow only 40kiB without moderation.  So it is being held for
> moderation.  We can either release that note to the list or reject/discard
> that post.  It's not like it's 1 MB post or anything.  :)
>
> What would you prefer that we do?
>
>   
My intent was to let others that might have been scrambling to backport 
the patch to 8.12.8 make use of the backported patch for sendmail 8.12.8 
that I was successful in doing. The patch only applies without conflicts 
on RH9's sendmail I am pretty sure.  Considering that legacy is just 
upgrading sendmail to 8.12.11 and it is available in updates-testing 
there is probably no need for it.

The only use I would think anyone would  have out of it is if someone 
has some bizarre reason that they need to stick with 8.12.8 on RH9.  I 
know I will be ditching my patched 8.12.8 and going with the official 
update from legacy.  Hopefully the updated sendmail will fix a milter 
problem I have where you can not send a SIGINT, SIGHUP, SIGTERM to any 
milter process(they are filtered with rt_sigsetmask or something like 
that).  You have to send a SIGKILL to terminate a milter on RH9.  That 
is however unlikely.  I did not see anything in the changelog for 
sendmail that would hint at that but I am hopeful anyway :).

I really have no preference if you want to kill the post or not.  Unless 
someone speaks up that they want to see a patch that applies to sendmail 
8.12.8 (updated spec was included too) I don't know if it is worth the 
(70kbit * number of list users) bandwidth unless just to archive it.  
Ditch it if nobody responds would be fine with me.