Re: sendmail snapshot 8.18.1.9

HQuest wrote:

Thank you, Claus, for the Sunday update. A few warnings during build
time (some external to sendmail). Compiled against OpenSSL 3.4.0 on a

The warnings are known...

Some are useless:

 3055 |         (void) setuid(RealUid);
      |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
main.c: In function `finis':
main.c:3199:24: warning: ignoring return value of `setuid' declared with
attribute `warn_unused_result' [-Wunused-result]

The code uses (void) to tell the compiler to shut up
-- seems the compiler writers ignore that :-(

tls.c:118:9: warning: `DH_new' is deprecated: Since OpenSSL 3.0

See the fine documentation: sendmail/README

OpenSSL 3 deprecated a lot of functionality which sendmail uses by
default. However, the code can be disabled via compile time options
if needed:
-DNO_DH: related to DH and DSA.