[Mimedefang] MimeDefang and RedHat Enterprise Edition->friction or harmony?

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

I suppose my notes on installing Sendmail 8.12 from on Redhat ES2.1
are still valid; you only have to get the latest rawhide source-RPM
in stead of the RH9 RPM, if you want the latest patches.  One site is
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/sendmail-8.12.9-12.1.i386.html

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> One important default misconfiguration in Redhat sendmail you did not
> mention.
> 
> Go into the sendmail.mc file and find a line
> 
> define(`confTRUSTED_USER', `smmsp')dnl
> 
> and put a dnl in front of it. This setting is bad! Rebuild the sendmail.cf -
> with mybe other wanted settings as well - by doing a make in /etc/mail.
> Change the ownership of /etc/aliases* to root.root and restart sendmail. (In
> the latest rawhide sendmail rpm this issue is fixed by Florian LaRoche.)

/Ole