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Fixing Sendmail after March 2003 Security Update
I too was having this same problem. As usual every time Apple updates something - it usually breaks sendmail. I personally only use sendmail to mail out crontask output to another full mailserver running on another box on my LAN. I ran across a nice tip though that may save me the grief of having to fix sendmail eacha nd every time Apple updates. The tip was to just replace sendmail with postfix via fink. The theory being that since postfix is not in your standard system layout (rather it lives in /sw) then it won't get broken each time Apple updates. So I did just that - installed postfix via Fink.
It remains to be seen whether it survives an Apple update - but the theory sounds solid. Beside that postfix is known to be much more secure than sendmail anyway. Configuration is also much easier than sendmail.
I personally use and recommend Qmail as full-fledged mailserver. Its installation can be a bit hairy - but with a little work you can have am extremely configurable and secure Qmail installation with imap, mailing list, web interface configuration, etc. You can get the OS X Qmail installer here:http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/qmailsecureemailserverinstaller.html and here are some tips for setup/installation: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020709091327481&query=qmail
More confusion
Hmmm, confused indeed. I too used the oreilly article getting sendmail to pass on output from cronjobs. However, I don't think my sendmail broke immediately after the sec-update. I think it first broke after running either the weekly or monthly cleanup job. I then added a # to a out-commented line in the config.mc file and updated as per the instructions on the oreilly site. This got things working. I then checked the sendmail binary for this line
Fixing Sendmail after March 2003 Security Update
[191][david@localhost-11:46pm]/<1>mail] > fink apropos postfix
postfix via fink
> fink info postfix-release
postfix via fink
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