[rhn-users] RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Sendmail RPMs

[Ken Snider]

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Stephen Agar wrote:
| 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 doubt this will happen.

Red Hat Enterprise 3 does support STARTTLS out of the box, so to speak.

Since RHEL 2.1 is supposed to be a "stable" platform, it's extremely unlikely
that they would introduce new features into applications, as those feature
changes may alter the behavior of sendmail in some way.

Disclaimer: I'm not a RH employee. :)

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Ken Snider
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