Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 17:52:04 CST
From: "Paul Pomes, UofIllinois-CSO" <Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu>

This is to let you all know what is happening with the 5.65d release of
sendmail.  Paul Vixie of DECWRL and I met several times during the San
Francisco Usenix to discuss merging our two versions of IDA sendmail
(KJS and UIUC/NIU) into a single package.  The first step is to combine
the remaining features of KJS into the UIUC sources.  That's the easy
part.  The next part, which I was reluctantly convinced to do, is re-do
the code structure so that it diff's cleanly against the 5.65 Berkeley
source.  By omitting key #define's, the original 5.65 sendmail can be
compiled.  In some cases, such as the rewritten _rewrite(), whole routines
will be duplicated - one for IDA, the other for BSD.  The reason is to
convince the cautious that the new sendmail does no more evil than the
vanilla BSD sendmail.

This organization will be done for one release.  After that backward
compatibility at the code level will be scrapped in favor of better
design.

With these decisions the release schedule has been modified.  I will
start the editting process sometime next week and run local tests on
the new feature inclusion.  Once Paul and I have agreed that the feature
set is done, the code re-structure will begin.  This last part can be
farmed-out to interested workers.

/pbp