On 1 Oct 1998, Jacques Gelinas writes:

> One problem with many packages is that there is no reliable way to tell
>
>       -which version it is
>       -what features are supported (compile option)
 
> On system using either RPM or DEB, we can guess the version by using
> the packaging system. But anyone is allowed to put a new binary in
> place. This is why linuxconf can't suggest "available" maps for
> sendmail (Anyone has a trick ?)

The output of 

    sendmail -bt -d0.1 </dev/null

will include the sendmail version and (since around sendmail
8.7.something at least) also the options it was compiled
with... wouldn't that help?

Jonathan
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