sendmail 8.15.2 is missing SOCKETMAP Support

[Michael Alzheimer]

The current sendmail binary from the xenial distribution is missing SOCKETMAP support.
It seems it is simply not compiled in.

SOCKETMAP was supported in prvious releases (14.04 / 12.04)

Here are my system informations:

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04

root@bppc56:~# sendmail -bt -d0.4 </dev/null
Version 8.15.2
 Compiled with: DNSMAP IPV6_FULL LDAPMAP LDAP_REFERRALS LOG MAP_REGEX
  MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6
  NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF STARTTLS
  TCPWRAPPERS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT XDEBUG

root@bppc56:~# apt-cache policy sendmail
sendmail:
  Installed: 8.15.2-3
  Candidate: 8.15.2-3
  Version table:
 *** 8.15.2-3 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expect, in "Compiled with" should SOCKETMAP be listed ;) - it is necessary for us cause we use the cyrus realtime integration.

[Michael Alzheimer (michael-alzheimer)]

Possible Workaround:
 - as i saw in sendmail_8.15.2-3.debian.tar.xz, the files

debian/configure
and
debian/configure.ac

seems to be the ones for sendmail Version up to 8.14.4, not 8.15.2.
Therefore the statements "# version specific setup", line 4989 does not include the setup for version 8.15.2.
Extending this if statements by version 8.15.2 sets some more compile configs for 8.15.2 and also the SOCKETMAP function.

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[Andreas Beckmann (anbe)]

This is fixed in 8.15.2-4, please backport the required changes from that version.

[Jean-Yves Avenard (jyavenard)]

Yes please, fix this in LTS.

Just configured a new server with 16.04 , and that causes our sendmail milter to no longer work :(