"Born, Ken" wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> I have finished my code to work with Sendmail 8.9.1 on
> RELEASE: C.60.00   MPE/iX HP31900 C.16.01   USER VERSION: C.60.00
>
> Since my code development took longer than I thought, I am wondering if this
> is the current release?  I need to install Sendmail on our backup and
> production machines.  What is the current support version of sendmail
> working with OS 6.00?  I noticed a couple of weeks ago about a beta version
> that may be ready.  Not sure if I want to jump on the beta release.

8.9.1 is incredibly ancient, and probably filled with all sorts of bugs and
security holes.

The 8.12.1 beta available from http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/sendmail/ is the
latest & greatest.  There are currently 19 beta testers, and they've found one
documentation bug on the web page (corrected), and made one enhancement for it
to more conveniently install on top of 8.9.1 (to be enhanced at production
release).

8.12.1 will be submitted to 7.5 as a fully supported part of FOS.  There will
also be a fully supported 7.0 patch.  There will be no official HP support on
versions of MPE earlier than 7.0.

However, I have tested 8.12.1 on 6.0 and 6.5 and it seems to run just fine.
There will be no HPRC support for sendmail on these MPE releases; if you have
any questions, post them to HP3000-L or e-mail me directly and I will answer as
time permits.  Which is basically the same level of "support" you get with
8.9.1.  ;-)

8.12.1 definitely handles messages piped to programs better.  Programs that
terminate in error will have any stderr output bounced back to the message
sender, whereas 8.9.1 was unable to due to porting workaround reasons.
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