Sendmail 8.13.3 Release Notes (5900-1546, January 2011)

NOTE: As of the initial release of HP-UX 11i v3, this product is added to new software
bundle. As a result, the product can now be updated through an HP-UX 11i v3 Operating
Environment Update Release (OEUR). It can also be updated through the Application
Release (AR) media, through web-releases, and through patches.
What is in This Version
This release of Sendmail 8.13.3 (B.11.11.02.008, B.11.23.1.007, and C.8.13.3.5)
for the HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 operating systems does not contain any new
feature. It contains only defect fixes. For information on the defect fixes, see “Defects
Fixed in This Release” (page 15).
Sendmail 8.13.3 Features
Sendmail 8.13.3 includes the following new features:
• Security enhancements
Sendmail 8.13.3 can be run as a non-setuid program for better security purposes.
Any attempt from non-superusers to obtain root user privileges is denied.
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◦ Sendmail 8.13.3 supports secured mail transactions using the Transport Layer
Security (TLS) protocol.
• Anti-Spam control
◦ Sendmail 8.13.3 supports libmilter.a, the mail filtering APIs.
• LDAP enhancements to support recursion and LDAP URL support
Sendmail 8.13.3 supports the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
recursion based on the attribute specifications in an LDAP-map definition. LDAP
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recursion allows LDAP queries to return a new query, a DN, or an LDAP URL,
which is in turn queried.
◦ The default LDAP specifications for AliasFile (O AliasFile=ldap:) and
file classes (F{X}@LDAP) are extended to include support for LDAP recursion
using new attributes.
• The daemon process ID (PID) files are locked so that other daemons cannot overwrite
PID files of each other.
• Sendmail 8.13.3 includes the authinfo feature to allow a separate database for
SMTP AUTH information.
• When Sendmail 8.13.3 receives a temporary error on a RCPT TO: command, it
attempts to contact other MX hosts, if available.
• The recipient list used for delivery is ordered by hostsignature, the character
string version of MX records. This sorts recipients for the same MX records together
so that small portions of the list need to be scanned instead of the whole list. The
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