[Mimedefang] After loading MIMEDefang, sendmail refuses to start

[Graham Dunn]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:17:38PM +1000, Roland Verlander wrote:
> I compiled /w milter and followed MIMEDefang docs. Maybe my old conf files
> don't work in newer sendmail?

As an earlier poster mentioned, the line

"INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(mimedefang,S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock,
F=T, T=S:60s;R:60s;E:5m)"

should be in sendmail.mc, not sendmail.cf. The m4 .mc -> .cf
translation turns it into

O InputMailFilters=mimedefang
Xmimedefang, S=local:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T,
T=S:60sm;R:60s;E:5m

which will work in sendmail.cf ...

Instructions for creating an mc file appropriate for your system (as
opposed to hacking around with a cf) are located in cf/README in your
sendmail source directory.

Graham

> ----- 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
> >
> >
> 
> 
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