Sendmail versions

This is NOT a warranty that these versions of sendmail are secure. In fact, I believe that sendmail is terribly bloated and has a design fundamentally incompatible with what one wants in a good MTA for internet mail these days. (Not that that's bad or anything, it was written an infinite amount of time ago in internet-years, and worked well then; but many things have changed since then.) I recommend using postfix instead. But since sendmail came with your OS, it's probably easier, which is why a lot of people use it, indeed why I use it on some of the unix machines under my wing, and probably why you're reading this web page.

In most cases below you'll find some pre-compiled binaries, i.e. some versions of the sendmail software which I compiled on appropriate computers and I'm making available here. I also don't recommend these! You really shouldn't install binaries you get from random people on the net. If you know me personally, it might be ok to take software from me. But instead, why don't you compile it yourself from the source.

Contents:
Irix
Solaris
Linux, especially Red Hat
Sun OS 4.1.x

You should use 8.9.3 on any machine which is running a sendmail smtp listener. Irix makes sendmail listen (i.e. receive mail) by default. If this machine is not supposed to receive mail from the internet (and has an MX record) (see relay.html), you have to edit /etc/init.d/mail to remove the "-bd" in two places (but leave the "-q15m").

I have some old notes on using irix's sendmail 8.6.12, especially with respect to how to accomplish the "forward-everything" configuration, but I strongly recommend upgrading to at least 8.8.8 for security reasons, especially since there's an easy patch available.

My irix sendmail 8.9.3 directory contains a gzipped sendmail 8.9.3 binary, a suitable forward-everything sendmail.cf for irix (uids tweaked etc), and a compiled copy of gnu-m4 which you'll need on older versions of irix to generate the sendmail.cf.

Solaris

You can't use Sun's sendmail.cf files with a real sendmail 8.9.3. Actually I don't recommend Sun's sendmail 8.9.3 at all, they did a bunch of weird things. Use the real one.

I have a pre-compiled binary, gzipped. (You can get gzip from sunfreeware.com to ungzip it. You want gzip anyway.)

Linux, especially Red Hat

DAEMON=no
QUEUE=1h

Red Hat 5.2 can't install the rh6.0 sendmail rpm, so I built sendmail 8.9.3 on a redhat 5.2 machine. That directory contains a gzipped sendmail binary and a sendmail.cf file. I'd assume you can use the makemap and other stuff which came with redhat 5.2's sendmail 8.8.7.

Sun OS 4.1.x