[Mimedefang] Sendmail -DMILTER Issues

[T. Halter]

Ray Spinhirne,

  How do you build it with Milter support?  I don't see any instructions
anywhere for building it with the Milter support.

Tom


> 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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