[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang HOWTO

Stefano McGhee SMcGhee at ARCweb.com
Thu Dec 26 14:36:01 EST 2002


Hello Lisa,
    Having Milter there shouldn't break anything.  It just there if you need
it.  Other than that, Albert has some good point on proceeding cautiously.
We all should :-)  Anyway, AFAIK Milter is just an extra module and
shouldn't break anything, you've got in place.

Stefano
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico.net>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang HOWTO


> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to follow the MIMEDefang HOWTO at
> http://www.rudolphtire.com/mimedefang-howto/#ss1.2
> to get anti-spam/virus protection on my Redhat 7.2 server. It is currently
> an 8.11 version of
> Sendmail so my first step will be to upgrade that. (Actually I have
already
> followed the procedure up to creating the devtools/Site/site.config.m4
> file).
>
> I'm concerned about one thing though. I'm planning to do this on a "live"
> server. Is there any point in this that I could disrupt  my customers
> e-mail? Suppose I only had time today to upgrade Sendmail with the email
> filter interface, but had to leave doing the rest of this until another
day.
> Will there be a problem in that I am now running Sendmail 8.12.6 with a
> filter interface but no filters yet?
>
> I apologise if this sounds somewhat naive. I'm perhaps not as confidant of
> this as I ought to be.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lisa Casey
> Webmaster & SysAdmin
> Netlink 2000, Inc.
> lisa at jellico.net
>
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