[Mimedefang] Using a provided-version of sendmail (not self-compiled)

David T Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Tue Dec 16 10:37:43 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:25, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Rich Stanton wrote:
> 
> > Doing "sendmail -d0.1 -bv root" shows that the provided version has been
> > compiled with milter support, but is there anyway to check whether it was
> > compiled with "conf_libmilter_ENVDEF', `-D_FFR_MILTER_ROOT_UNSAFE'" or not
> > (I'm following Mickey Hills guide here).
> 
> You don't absolutely need those; as long as MILTER appears in the -d0.1
> output, you're OK.
> 
> > Secondly, the guide mentions copying the header & library files from the
> > sendmail source.  I've checked in the destination folder where the guide
> > says to put these files, and they aren't there.  So what is the best way of
> > getting them (or are they likely to be installed elsewhere, or be available
> > in an rpm - the distro is red-hat based).
> 
> There must be a sendmail-devel RPM; install that and you'll be OK.
> 
I always use the stock sendmail RPMS on my RedHat boxes (I stay pretty
current, not hanging back in 7.x land or anything) and they work fine. 
You need to install the sendmail-devel package to build MIMEDefang
against and the sendmail-cf package to have all of the m4 files and
initial sendmail.mc, etc.



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