[Mimedefang] MD through tcp socket

[hans hm04]

hi Murat 

look for socat ( i took socat-1.4.0.3.tar from sf.net ) 
socat reads from a tcp-port and writes to a socket
and vice versa. 

here my configs example all running on ultrasparc with solaris 9: 
sendmail: 
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang', `S=inet:19025 at otherhost, F=T, T=S:60s;R:60s;E:5m')
md on "otherhost" acts with /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
and running socat with 
socat TCP-LISTEN:19025,fork UNIX:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
just befor starting md. i did modify the start-script - also stop the socat proc.

this works perfectly for me since last year. 

Have a nice day.

best regards 
hans 

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:02:33AM +0200, Murat wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a FC3 mail server running MD 2.51. Recently some more tasks were integrated into 
> the server, and it has a hard time running mails properly. A hardware upgrade is close 
> but until then I want to run MD on a seperat box and get sendmail to talk to MD through 
> tcp socket. I know it is not the best performance solution but it is the only option I 
> have, so I will be very glad if you help.
> 
> I have searched the mail archives and found this:
> 
> mimedefang -p inet:888
> 
> I tried to add it to /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang in the new MD box as:
> 
> MD_EXTRA="-p inet:1000" (choice of tcp port 1000 is totaly random)
> 
> It didnot work. How can I get MD to accept connections from a tcp socket and get 
> sendmail to deliver requests to that tcp socket?
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Murat Isik
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