[H-GEN] Spamassassin for all domains

[Tony Melia]

 Cool sendmail -D0 says I have milter enable - I had assumed my sendmail
didn't have milter support because I couldn't find libmilter on my system, I
just worked out from a google post that I need sendmail-devel which will
give me real milter/libmilter support.

Thanks,
Tony


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Tony Melia
Systems Engineer/Director
TM IT Consultancy Ltd Pty
tony.melia at tmitc.com.au 
Phone: 0407 173352
www.tmitc.com.au 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gwynne [mailto:loki at animata.net] 
Sent: Friday, 19 March 2004 3:40 PM
To: Tony Melia
Cc: general at lists.humbug.org.au
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Spamassassin for all domains

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:08, Tony Melia wrote:
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> Hi All - I asked before about having my (RH9) server check all mail 
> for spam, even for domains I am a secondary MX for, and I was advised 
> to look at amavis.  My domain is checked and working via procmailrc.  
> Is there any other way to check other domains I host for without using 
> amavis, as, from the sounds of it, I have to install milter, and get 
> the sendmail sources e.t.c - sounds like more work than I have time 
> for right now.  Is there an easier way - or alternativly is there a
milter.rpm prebuilt for RH9?

The sendmail that ships with RedHat 9 is already built with milter support.
In fact, it ships with a lot of stuff built in so the need to recompile
sendmail is largely avoided. It's just a pity that is such a pain in the
arse to configure and use sendmail compared to some others...

You can find out what sendmail has been compiled to support thusly:

dlg at host dlg$ echo | /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail -d0 Version 8.12.8
Compiled with: DNSMAP HESIOD HES_GETMAILHOST LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX
                MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET
NETINET6
                NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASL SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS
                USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT
[snipped output]

see MILTER in there?

I would recommend looking at mimedefang (http://www.mimedefang.org) as a
milter wrapping spamassassin and any virus scanners you care to put in.
Once you get your head around it it's extremely flexible and effective.
There are srpms available at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/mimedefang/,
but I can't vouch for them since I don't use mimedefang on RedHat.

As for starting an MTA flamewar, I'd rather not do that either, apart from
saying that I don't find sendmail to be a slouch in the MTA arena and it
works great once you know what you're doing with it. However, sendmail's
learning curve compared to something like postfix or exim is way steeper.

Each to their own.

Regards,
DG

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> Tony
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