SUMMARY: Sendmail Year 2000 Question

From: Grace Standorf (gstandor@ns1.monmouth.army.mil)
Date: Fri May 09 1997 - 09:43:37 CDT


I apologize for the extremely long delay in my summary -

I originally wrote:

> I currently have sendmail disabled on my Sun-670MP running Solaris 2.5,
> but I'd like to enable it and start using it. Can anyone tell me if
> there are any Year 2000 problems using sendmail in this configuration?
> My current mail system uses a two-digit year and doesn't handle the
> year 2000 correctly.

I received responses advising that the thing to do is to get rid of the
vendor-supplied version of sendmail and install 8.8.5 (available from
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/sendmail), along with bind 4.9.5 (available
via ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/bind/release/4.9.5/bind-4.9.5-REL.tar.gz).
As far as the UNIX system date, internal dates are represented
as a 32-bit integer, so UNIX won't have any problems until around 2038.

I installed sendmail 8.8.5 and pine 3.96, and things are working quite
well. I'm having some problems bypassing MX records, but I'll save that
topic for a new message. :-)

Thanks to the following for their help:

Reto Lichtensteiger <rali@meitca.com>
"Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
"Matthew Stier" <mstier@hotmail.com>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>
John Justin Hough <john@oncology.uthscsa.edu>
satish@lvision.com (Satish Somanath)

Regards,

Grace Standorf
US Army CECOM DCI
Workplace Technology Services Branch



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