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[Kevin J. Cummings]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:29, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 
>>rpm -qi sendmail-milter-spf
>>Name        : sendmail-milter-spf          Relocations: (not relocatable)
>>Version     : 1.41                              Vendor: (none)
>>Release     : 1                             Build Date: Tue 27 Apr 2004 
>>03:50:26 AM EDT
>>Install Date: Thu 30 Sep 2004 12:30:34 AM EDT      Build Host: 
>>gatekeeper.city-fan.org
>>Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source RPM: 
>>sendmail-milter-spf-1.41-1.src.rpm
>>Size        : 54174                            License: GPL
>>Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 27 Apr 2004 03:50:57 AM EDT, Key ID 
>>e0be69c9b56a8bac
>>Packager    : Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>>Summary     : Milter to enable SPF checking in sendmail
>>Description :
>>sendmail-milter-spf is a mail filter designed to be used with sendmail
>>to implement checking of DNS spf records (see http://spf.pobox.com/)
>>to detect forged mail sender addresses.
>>
>>I think its yours, Paul.   B^)  B^)
> 
> 
> Yes, I'm the guilty party there. Do you have my perl modules too?
> 
> perl-Mail-SPF-Query
> perl-Mail-SRS
> perl-Net-CIDR
> perl-Sendmail-Milter
> perl-Net-CIDR-Lite
> perl-Net-DNS
> perl-Sys-Hostname-Long

I probably had to install some of them, now that you mention it....

> If you start the milter whilst sendmail is not running, are there
> definitely no log messages in /var/log/maillog?

Not until an email comes in.  service says that the PIDfile exists, but 
no process is running.

When an email comes in I see:

Oct 17 09:37:47 kjc386 sendmail[2296]: i9HDblkJ002296: Milter 
(spf-milter): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by 
/var/spf-milter/spf-milter.sock
Oct 17 09:37:47 kjc386 sendmail[2296]: i9HDblkJ002296: Milter 
(spf-milter): to error state
Oct 17 09:37:47 kjc386 sendmail[2296]: i9HDblkJ002296: Milter: 
initialization failed, temp failing commands

And the email is then bounced (temporarily) by sendmail.

> Does the socket get created in /var/spf-milter?

Not sure, I haven't looked whilest it was dead.  It certainly exists 
after I restart it.  I also see some "log" files in there.  But the 
recent spflog-2004xx.log files only seem to be recording the successful 
startups:

/var/spf-milter/spflog-200410.log
Fri Oct 15 18:06:34 2004: Starting Sendmail::Milter 0.18 engine
Mon Oct 18 00:19:39 2004: Starting Sendmail::Milter 0.18 engine

Not much useful there either.  I have to go back to the 
spflog-200402.log file to find a log of "failed" emails.  (which I'm 
pretty sure was my previous version.)  Yes, I realize that they are 
being logged in the /var/log/maillog these days.

> I've not played with the perl milter for some time now as Mark appears
> to have stopped developing it and I've moved on to using Jef Poskanzer's
> C-based milter instead.

At the time I downloaded it, I was just looking for an RPM of 
spf-milter, and that's the one I found....  I was looking to upgrade to 
a more up-to-date SPF implementation than I had been running.

What is the name of Jef Poskanzer's milter, and where might I find it, 
and is there an RPM for it?

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us