The file "patch.sendmail" is a context diff patch to be applied in the sendmail directory of the sendmail source distribution. This patch has been tested against V8.12 and V8.13 For example: % cp illegalpipe.patch /tmp % cd /usr/local/src/mail/sendmail/sendmail-8.12.9/sendmail % patch -p < /tmp/illegalpipe.patch % ./Build # ./Build install