[rhn-users] RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Sendmail RPMs

[Stephen Agar]

Hi,
We use Enterprise Linux 2.1, for our mail servers here. I realize that 
the version packaged with 2.1 is a bit old (8.11.6) but it serves its 
purpose. I am looking into providing SMTP Auth to our clients, but after 
running a "sendmail -d0.1 -bv" to see the compiled in options, I notice 
that "STARTTLS" is not compiled into this rpm. I realize that I can 
rebuild this version with STARTTLS, or just upgrade to a newer version 
of sendmail and compile it in. This seems to defeat the purpose of using 
an OS like redhat enterprise linux, and paying for support. Then for 
every update that was released, I would have to recompile sendmail 
again. Would it be possible for redhat to recompile the package, and 
stick the new rpm (with STARTTLS compiled in)  on the up2date servers, 
so we can grab it with our next up2date run.

I wasn't sure which list to send this to, if I am in error here, please 
let me know.

thanks,
Stephen

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Stephen Agar, Systems Administrator II
University of Southern Mississippi, iTech
e-mail: stephen.agar at usm.edu