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Re: How to locate the version of sendmail

1997-07-31 00:23:00
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:42:11 -0700 (PDT),
John Gianni <jjg(_at_)Cadence(_dot_)COM> wrote:
Q:What is the best way to locate the version of sendmail one is using?
I'm using whatever sendmail comes with SunOS 5.5.1, and, the manpages
don't seem to list a -version command (-v is verbose mode, but, I can't
seem to get it to spit out the version).

Telnet to your mail server and it will display the version information
in its greeting. If you have old messages on store, the Received:
lines from those could be helpful as well.

Here's an example from your message as received here (rewrapped for
legibility): 

Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE 
   (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240])
   by kantti.Helsinki.FI (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA12392 
   for <reriksso(_at_)cc(_dot_)helsinki(_dot_)fi>; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:51:38 
+0300 (EET DST)

So my site is running 8.8.5. 

mailgate.cadence.com is running smap so you won't see any version
number in its greeting. But here's mine, for reference:

 $ telnet kantti.helsinki.fi 25
 Trying 128.214.205.12...
 Connected to kantti.helsinki.fi.
 Escape character is '^]'.
 220 kantti.Helsinki.FI ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:34:33 
+0300 (EET DST)

Finally, sendmail -d blorts out a long message which starts with the
version number (but that won't help if mail handling is not being done
on the machine where you're logged in, as the case may be).

Hope this helps,

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