sendmail milter bug shows up on gateway with 8.14.0

Ken A ka at pacific.net
Tue Mar 13 16:27:33 CET 2007


http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.0.php#ERRATA

> (2007-02-06) Recipients that are rejected by a milter are not removed
> from an internal list and hence mail will be delivered to them if the
> transaction is accepted. A preliminary patch is available.

If you are using a milter that rejects based on recipient (common on 
MailScanner boxes) and sendmail 8.14.0, you'll see some DSNs being 
generated by sendmail that /should/ have been rejected in envelope phase 
instead.

You can either live with it, patch or rpm Uvh --oldpackage 8.13.x

Ken A.
Pacific.Net


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