[Mimedefang] Re: Newbie question - testing

[Daniel C. Mahoney]

> You can test the syntax of SA and mimedefang filters by: 
> 
> spamassassin --lint
> mimedefang.pl -f /loca/to/test/mimedefang-filter -test

Ok, the individual tests show that the install is working. Actually, I was 
aware of those tests, was hoping for a way to verify that the whole 
spamassassin/clamav/mimedefang chain was doing it's thing. 

Here's my situation. I just started as sys admin for a shop that runs 
sendmail. All of my previous work for the last bunch of years has used 
qmail, so I'm having to relearn sendmail after a bunch of years. We've got a 
working sendmail and old installs of spamassassin, clamav, and mimedefang. 
Management and the acting sys admin decided that we needed new, clean 
installs of SA, clamav, and MD. I installed the individual components and 
checked each of them as I installed them. Spamassassin properly identified 
spam and clamav properly identifies viruses - that much I have been able to 
show. 

I've followed Mickey Hill's HOWTO and it looks to me like I've got all the 
pieces in place. They just aren't playing nicely together. 

Mimedefang is aware of spamassassin and clamav, and it's there are lines in 
sendmail.cf that look like:
   O InputMailFilters=mimedefang
and
   Xmimedefang, S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, 
T=S:5m;R:5m 

I know that sendmail is calling mimedefang, as I'm seeing lines in the log 
file that look like:
    Jul 21 09:06:59 mail sm-mta[9007]: j6LG6il1009007: Milter add: header: 
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 216.177.75.74 

I do have a queue-runner going, as "ps ax | grep send" returns:
 -su-2.05b# ps ax | grep send
8529  ??  Ss     0:07.68 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
8532  ??  Is     0:00.03 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for 
/var/spool/client
45191  ??  I      0:00.01 sendmail: j6LEcO0C045191 
82-35-232-58.cable.ubr01.cam 

Clamd is running. 

Here's the problem: when I send myself mail with SpamAssassin's sample SPAM 
message, it gets delivered with no problem and no notations. When I send 
myself mail with one of clamav's sample virus files attached, it gets 
delivered without problem and no notations. I'm using MD's 
suggested-minimum-filter-for-windows-clients for my mimedefang-filter. 

Any suggestions what I might have overlooked, misconfigured, or forgotten to 
configure? This system is running FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE with sendmail 8.2.11 
(I'd really rather not upgrade sendmail right now, since this version is 
working). Options compiled into sendmail are:
Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
               NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING 
SASLv2
               SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG 


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