[Mimedefang] Sendmail upgrade...

[Doug Brott]

Henrik Schmiediche wrote:

>    Hello,
>I recently implemented mimedefang using sendmail 8.12.10. I have never
>upgraded sendmail with mimedefang present. Before I break everything... if I
>want to upgrade Sendmail 8.12.10 to 8.12.11 do I need to reinstall
>mimedefang as well? Any other caveats to watch out for?
>
>Sincerely,
>
>   - Henrik
>
>  
>
As long as you have a working sendmail.mc file, things should be fairly 
straight forward.  I'm not sure what OS you are using, but if you are 
using Fedora Core 1, I would caution against attempting to upgrade to 
sendmail 8.12.11.  RedHat/Fedora has made enough patch fixes to the base 
sendmail code that makes it troublesome to accomplish.  Fedora Core 2 
has a later sendmail available, and I believe that that fits within the 
constraints established for the Fedora installations.

Now, if you are using another distribution, it may very well be trivial 
to do the upgrade from 8.12.10 to 8.12.11.  In fact, this is what I used 
to do until I got lazy.  If that is the case, then make sure you have a 
working sendmail.mc file so that you can re-generate the sendmail.cf 
with the new version of sendmail.  You sohuld be able to stop sendmail, 
install the new one and then start sendmail again with things working as 
expected.

Good luck and let us know how it works out.

Regards.

-- 
Doug Brott
brott at redh.com