[Mimedefang] Question about base install from FreeBSD pkg system

[John Von Essen]

Let me preface, I started using MD back in 2002, and ran several mail systems with it. Then in 2012, I moved to google, and forgot all my SA and MD stuff. I am now setting up a personal VM to run my website and email, and will migrate off gmail. Server is FreeBSD with Sendmail.

So I thought I would try to build everything from pkg’s in FreeBSD 11. According to what I read, this is as simple as doing “pkg install mimedefang”

That single pkg includes all the perl module dependencies including SpamAssassin.

Then you rebuild sendmail.cf to include the milter.

So I did all that, and the system appears to sort of be working. The issue is, I don’t think SA is being called or utilized. There is no Spam-Score, and also tried sending some test emails with words that would trigger something (male body parts and drugs). I did run sa-update and sa-compile.

When I send a test email to the server, and look at the header, I see this:

From: John Von Essen <john at essenz.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\))
Subject: Email from desktop
Message-Id: <39B1454B-507A-4853-9815-639D4CE9F9A3 at essenz.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:38:17 -0400
To: root at essenz.tilaa.cloud
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1)
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.83

>From Gmail account.

And I see this in the servers maillog:

Oct 11 17:43:58 essenz sm-mta[3566]: STARTTLS=server, relay=mail-qk1-x731.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20:0:0:0:731], version=TLSv1.2, verify=FAIL, cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Oct 11 17:43:58 essenz sm-mta[3566]: w9BHhvcu003566: from=<john at essenz.com>, size=2342, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<39B1454B-507A-4853-9815-639D4CE9F9A3 at essenz.com>, proto=ESMTPS, daemon=IPv6, relay=mail-qk1-x731.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20:0:0:0:731]
Oct 11 17:43:58 essenz mimedefang.pl[3438]: w9BHhvcu003566: MDLOG,w9BHhvcu003566,mail_in,,,<john at essenz.com>,<root at essenz.tilaa.cloud>,Email from desktop
Oct 11 17:43:58 essenz sm-mta[3566]: w9BHhvcu003566: Milter delete (noop): header: X-Spam-Score
Oct 11 17:43:58 essenz sm-mta[3566]: w9BHhvcu003566: Milter add: header: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.83
Oct 11 17:43:58 essenz sm-mta[3567]: w9BHhvcu003566: to=<root at essenz.tilaa.cloud>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=32701, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

Any ideas?

Thanks
John Von Essen