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Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Jun 06, '02 12:27:18PM
The Mac OS X Server mailing list, hosted by Apple here (with browsable archives here (by recent date, in html) and here (older archives, plain text) have naturally talked about this at some length. (You may need to enter user/pass of "archives" and "archives" to view the archives.)

Although some folks mentioned circumventing the new security measures of sendmail, like in the above comment, Chuq Von Rospach, employee of Apple and maintainer (? some official capacity, at least) recommends strongly against.

You can read a summary of what his recommendation is here. He does a better job of explaining it than I, but basically--sendmail was updated with better security. The old cf file was not. Disabling the security of sendmail to make your old cf file work is NOT want you want to do; instead, update your cf file. Read the post and the README for more. Browse the archives to find the whole discussion, but a good part of it is in this thread (Sendmail- OSX 10.1.5 (localhost connection refusal).

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