[Mimedefang] Re: Getting MIMEDefang to Work

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 21:51, Al Sparks wrote:
> > That's somewhat helpful.  I'll start looking at seeing if Milter is working.
> >    === Al
> 
> If anyone cares, I finally was able to get back to working on this
> problem.  I don't know yet if I have MIMEDefang working yet, but
> milter was indeed not working.
> 
> In my searches around the web, I found one command that's handy for
> figuring out if milter is installed.  It's actually chock full of
> information.  Pretty cool.
>    sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null
> 
> It wasn't.  Whenever I install sendmail ala "roll your own", on a
> machine, especially a test machine, I keep the source I installed from
> around, keeping it in my home directory.
> 
> So I'd go to 
>    cd $SENDMAIL_SRC/sendmail
> and then
>    ./Build clean
> 
> I'd then do the rebuild after adding the required entry for milter to
> be added in,
>    $SENDMAIL_SRC/devtools/Site/site.config.m4
> 
> For some reason, make clean (or ./Build clean) in the sendmail
> directory isn't enough.
> 

You can get help with Build from <src>/devtools/README and by examining
the script itself <src>/devtools/bin/Build. Build creates makefiles that
contain clean invocations but the proper way is to invoke Build with the
-c flag so that it cleans before starting the build.

-- 
Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
416-452-4583