ANNOUNCE: Version 3.27 and 4.11

[Julian Field]

At 13:11 01/01/2003, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: 01 January 2003 11:48
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: Version 3.27 and 4.11
>
>
> > The only change for V3 is an important security fix, which you can
>easily
> > apply without upgrading if you don't want to. See the ChangeLog below
>for
> > details.
> >
> > - *** Important Security Fix ***
> >
> >    You must edit the "sendmail -bd ..." command in your init script
>and add
> >                            -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn
>
>Happy New Year Julian.  I have a raq3 and ETRN is disabled by default in
>the raq3 Sendmail configuration.  Is this change therefore necessary?

No. The key thing is to make sure that ETRN is disabled by any means
necessary. My suggested change is just the easiest way of doing it on most
systems.
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Julian Field
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