>   No, source-based installs don't put entries in the rpmdb.  You might be
> better off trying to rebuild the sendmail SRPM from, say, Fedora 7 (which
> has 8.14.1).
>


That is exactly what I attempted to do, but it complained about
tcp_wrappers, and tcp_wrappers complained about other dependencies, etc...

It was the Fedora 7 sendmail srpm I was using.