[Mimedefang] After loading MIMEDefang, sendmail refuses to start

[Roland Verlander]

I compiled /w milter and followed MIMEDefang docs. Maybe my old conf files
don't work in newer sendmail?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley at pcraft.com>
To: "Roland Verlander" <rolyv at bigpond.com>
Cc: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] After loading MIMEDefang, sendmail refuses to
start


> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Roland Verlander wrote:
>
> > Future versions of MIMEDefang may refuse to run as root.
> > 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 71: unknown configuration line
> >
"INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(mimedefang,S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock,
> > F=T, T=S:60s;R:60s;E:5m)"
> > Msmtp: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
> > Mesmtp: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
> > Msmtp8: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
> > Mrelay: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
> >
> > Those errors (And its definatly a MIMEDefang prob as plain 8.12.3
without
> > works without MIMEDefang)
>
>
> Did you compile sendmail with Milter support?  Did you create the
> necessary site files prior to compiling sendmail?  This is not "definitely
> a Mimedefang problem" - specially not when many others have gotten it to
> work just fine, some right out of the box.  If you have followed every
> instruction, step by step, you also would have a working sendmail right
> now.  Don't be so sure in blaming something without making sure it wasn't
> operator error.
>
> -- A
>
>