This shows only what's new in 8.9.1, for older versions see the 8.9.0 RELEASE NOTES.
8.9.1/8.9.1 98/07/02
If both an OS specific site configuration file and a generic
site.config.m4 file existed, only the latter was used
instead of both. Problem noted by Geir Johannessen of
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Fix segmentation fault while converting 8 bit to 7 bit MIME
multipart messages by trying to write to an unopened
file descriptor. Fix from Kari Hurtta of the Finnish
Meteorological Institute.
Do not assume Message: and Text: headers indicate the end of
the header area when parsing MIME headers. Problem noted
by Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Setting the confMAN#SRC Build variable would only effect the
installation commands. The man pages would still be
built with .0 extensions. Problem noted by Bryan
Costales of InfoBeat, Inc.
Installation of manual pages didn't honor the DESTDIR environment
variable. Problem noted by Bryan Costales of InfoBeat, Inc.
If the check_relay ruleset resolved to the discard mailer, messages
were still delivered. Problem noted by Mirek Luc of NASK.
Mail delivery to files would fail with an Operating System Error
if sendmail was not running as root, i.e. RunAsUser was set.
Problem noted by Leonard N. Zubkoff of Dandelion Digital.
Prevent MinQueueAge from interfering from queued items created
in the future, i.e. if the system clock was set ahead
and then back. Problem noted by Michael Miller of the
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Do not advertise ETRN support in ESTMP EHLO reply if noetrn is
set in the PrivacyFlags option. Fix from Ted Rule of
Flextech TV.
Log invalid persistent host status file lines instead of
bouncing the message. Problem noted by David Lindes of
DaveLtd Enterprises.
Move creation of empty sendmail.st file from installation to
compilation. Installation may be done from a read-only
mount. Fix from Bryan Costales of InfoBeat, Inc. and Ric
Anderson of the Oasis Research Center, Inc.
Enforce the maximum number of User Database entries limit. Problem
noted by Gary Buchanan of Credence Systems Inc.
Allow dead.letter files in root's home directory. Problem noted
by Anna Ullman of Sun Microsystems.
Program deliveries in forward files could be marked unsafe if
any directory listed in the ForwardPath option did not
exist. Problem noted by Jorg Bielak of Coastal Web Online.
Do not trust the length of the address structure returned by
gethostbyname(). Problem noted by Chris Evans of Oxford
University.
If the SIZE= MAIL From: ESMTP parameter is too large, use the
5.3.4 DSN status code instead of 5.2.2. Similarly, for
non-local deliveries, if the message is larger than the
mailer maximum message size, use 5.3.4 instead of 5.2.3.
Suggested by Antony Bowesman of
Fujitsu/TeaWARE Mail/MIME System.
Portability:
Fix the check for an IP address reverse lookup for
use in $&{client_name} on 64 bit platforms.
From Gilles Gallot of Institut for Development
and Resources in Intensive Scientific computing.
BSD-OS uses .0 for man page extensions. From Jeff Polk
of BSDI.
DomainOS detection for Build. Also, version 10.4 and later
ship a unistd.h. Fixes from Takanobu Ishimura of
PICT Inc.
NeXT 4.x uses /usr/lib/man/cat for its man pages. From
J. P. McCann of E I A.
SCO 4.X and 5.X include NDBM support. From Vlado Potisk
of TEMPEST, Ltd.
CONFIG: Do not pass spoofed PTR results through resolver for
qualification. Problem noted by Michiel Boland of
Digital Valley Internet Professionals; fix from
Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
CONFIG: Do not try to resolve non-DNS hostnames such as UUCP,
BITNET, and DECNET addresses for resolvable senders.
Problem noted by Alexander Litvin of Lucky Net Ltd.
CONFIG: Work around Sun's broken configuration which sends bounce
messages as coming from @@hostname instead of <>. LMTP
would not accept @@hostname.
OP.ME: Corrections to complex sendmail startup script from Rick
Troxel of the National Institutes of Health.
RMAIL: Do not install rmail by default, require 'make force-install'
as this rmail isn't the same as others. Suggested by
Kari Hurtta of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.