Recent News
- Sendmail 8.13.6
is available (2006-03-22);
it contains a fix for a security problem
discovered by Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force.
Sendmail urges all users of sendmail 8
to upgrade to sendmail 8.13.6.
Notes:- This affects every sendmail 8 version before 8.13.6.
- At least one party is actively working on developing a public exploit. Please upgrade as soon as possible. (2006-03-24)
- An Errata section has been added. (2006-03-28)
If you cannot upgrade to 8.13.6, then you can apply a patch (PGP signature) to 8.13.5, or a patch (PGP signature) for 8.12.11. Please read some more information about those patches and the affected sendmail versions.
For those not running the open source version, check with your vendor for a patch. If you use the commercial version from Sendmail, Inc. then please see their advisory. - Sendmail X is
available.
(2005-10-30).
X-0.1.Beta1.0 is available for testing (2006-02-04). - Note: the e-mail addresses for sendmail support have been changed (2005-09-16). Please use the new addresses and follow the requirements for sending e-mails.
- If you are subscribed to sendmail-announce but you did not receive
the announcement about a recent release, then you should check
- your email address which you used to subscribe to sendmail-announce,
- your MTA configuration to see whether that address actually works,
- your anti-spam configuration to see whether mail from sendmail.org is not rejected.
- IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you download the sendmail distribution you MUST verify the PGP signature. Do NOT use sendmail without verifying the integrity of the source code. Please read the CERT Advisory about this topic. We would like to thank Manabu Kondo and the staff at IIJ for bringing this to our attention.
- Previous news
Current Release
- Release Notes for the current version.
- On-line documentation
- Known Bugs - not always up to date.
- PGP Keys - Keys used to sign sendmail distributions and security announcements.
- Try a mirror of ftp.sendmail.org
- Sendmail, Inc. also offers a range of add-on products to enhance your open source sendmail MTA.
Primary resources for learning about sendmail ...
Please read the FAQ, as well as Compiling and Configuration pages, before asking questions of the sendmail maintainers.- Frequently Asked Questions - also posted to comp.mail.sendmail and news.answers.
- Compiling Sendmail
- Configuration Information
- Vendor Specific Information
- Web Site Translations
Resources for learning more about sendmail
- E-mail Addresses for contributions, patches, feature requests, questions, and bug-reports.
- Usenet News & Public Mailing Lists
- Books
- Classes
- Security
- E-mail Explained
- Other Sendmail Related Links
- Other Non-Sendmail Related Links
Contributing to sendmail
The Sendmail Consortium welcomes contributions to sendmail. These contributions may be in form of patches, especially for feature requests, feedback about problems, and suggestions for enhancements. Please see our list of e-mail addresses for contact information.
