[Mimedefang] Sendmail -DMILTER Issues
Ray Spinhirne
rays at admin.stedwards.edu
Sun Sep 1 02:32:01 EDT 2002
You needed the following file
# pwd
/usr/local/src/sendmail-8.12.5/devtools/Site
# more site.config.m4
dnl Milter
APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DMILTER')
APPENDDEF(`conf_libmilter_ENVDEF', `-D_FFR_MILTER_ROOT_UNSAFE')
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Also read the "README" in this same directory.
--- Quote from readme
Notice: if any of the above files is changed, the -c flag must be
specified with the Build command, otherwise those changes will have
no effect.
----------- End quote
>
> 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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