Upgrade sendmail via ports - version in smtp greeting doesn't match

Barry Byrne barry.byrne at wbtsystems.com
Wed Jan 25 07:03:46 PST 2006


Seem to have solved this. Not sure it's the correct thing to do, but
modified the Makefile in /etc/mail by adding a check for
/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf for the config files. 

Seems to be OK now.

 - Barry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Barry Byrne
> Sent: 25 January 2006 11:26
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Upgrade sendmail via ports - version in smtp 
> greeting doesn't match
> 
> All:
> 
> Not a major issue, but I've upgraded sendmail on a 4.11 box 
> via the ports.
> All appears to be working, but if I look at the SMTP 
> greeting, the version
> of sendmail or the config version is incorrect. The latter 
> version (8.13.1)
> would have been the version prior to the port upgrade.
> 
> 	220 mail.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.5/8.13.1;
> 
> >From memory, I think the first number is the sendmail 
> version and the second
> the config version.
> 
> I've done the make all, make install, make install-cf etc. 
> from /etc/mail
> and also done a make mailer.conf from the sendmail ports directory. 
> 
> Any help on what I should do here would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry
> 
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