sendmail modification needed for mimedefang to work FC2
Julian Underwood
mailings at underwoods.net
Sun Feb 13 18:25:20 UTC 2005
Thanks for your response, Alexander.
>> In versions prior to 8.13.0, sendmail did not support mail filters by
>> default, and must be compiled with filter support enabled by defining
>
> Wrong! Milter support is compiled in already - since ages in the
> Sendmail Red Hat Linux shipped and all Fedora Core release versions.
> All you need to successfully compile MimeDefang yourself is the
> sendmail-devel package to get the libmilter headers.
>
Oh, OK. This is good to know.
>> As I do not wish to blow up my mail server, I'm asking what would be the
>> best plan of attack? Upgrade to the latest Sendmail, if yes, how? From
>> tarball? I did not see any updated sendmail RPM's for FC2. Or should I
>> install the sendmail-8.12.11-4.6 source and rebuild it with the above
>> lines?
>
> Keep the Sendmail FC2 ships and install MimeDefang. Maybe use the
> MimeDefang RPM from Dag Wieers.
>
Well it's not working--perhaps you can enlighten me. I believe everything
is installed correctly (sendmail, mimedefang and spamassassin). This is
what I have done--I've added:
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang',
`S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, T=S:1m;R:1m')
to my sendmail.mc file (mimedefang.sock doesn't exist, I don't know if
this is an issue or not) then ran:
m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
I then issued these commands:
#CONFIGURE MIMEDEFANG TO START WITH INIT SCRIPT
cd redhat
cp mimedefang-sysconfig /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang
cp mimedefang-init /etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang
chkconfig --add mimedefang
I then restarted both sendmail and mimedefang services. Everything starts
fine, or at least it says it does. I cannot send or recieve e-mail after
these modifications (or more specifically, after the sendmail
modification.)
I did not try to telnet to port 25 after this modification to see if
sendmail is still listening, I could try it. So I revert back to my
original mc and cf files, restart sendmail, and mail works again. Any
ideas as to what I'm missing? Mimedefang is version 2.49 installed from
source--which installed without error.
Thanks,
Julian
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