[Mimedefang] Sendmail -DMILTER Issues

[Ray Spinhirne]

Sendmail must be build with Milter support.  The errors indicated that
you do not have an installed verion with milter support (but that the
sendmail.cf file has the milter request added.)

If you build sendmail without miltler and then added the milter commands
like the How-To indicated you need some special cleanup command --
it's mentioned somewhere in the sendail readme --  to force a new
build configuration.

Ray Spinhirne
 

> 
> Everyone,
> 
>   I can not get mimedefang to work.  I believe the issue is in the milter
> setup for sendmail.  I keep getting the following entries in the
> /var/log/messages log file when I start sendmail:
> 
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche sendmail: mimedefang-multiplexor startup succeeded
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche sendmail: mimedefang startup succeeded
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche sendmail: Warning: Option: InputMailFilters requires
> Milter support (-DMILTER)
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche sendmail: Warning: Option: Milter requires Milter
> support (-DMILTER)
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche last message repeated 3 times
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche sendmail: Warning: Filter usage ('X') requires
> Milter support (-DMILTER)
> Aug 31 21:14:12 tyche sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
> 
>   I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong.  To perform the install, I used
> the How-To done by Mickey Hill, located at:
>    http://www.rudolphtire.com/mimedefang-howto/
> 
>   I followed the sendmail installation instructions to a tee.  I've used
> sendmail and have installed versions of it from 8.8.x.  I've added a few
> things to the sendmail.mc file for the system, including my virtual user
> table, the generics table and the access table, which are key to my
> setups, but should work with everything.
> 
>   I've installed SpamAssassin and have tested it with test files, which
> would indicate that it is working.
> 
>   The /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter file appearantly isn't being touched.  I
> added an "action_add_header" to the very beginning of the sub
> filter_begin just to see if it would add it to any of the e-mails and it
> is not.
> 
>   Given the error above, I pursued my setup of sendmail and modified the
> Makefile to include the call for libmilter so that it would be installed
> as well, and then watched as it was installed.  I installed the
> libraries and the header files as instructed in the FAQ.  I still get
> nothing, just the above entries in the /var/log/messages file.
> 
>   Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> T. Halter
> gpmac at proshells.com
> 
> 
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