Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:31:46 +0200 From: Stephane Lentz <Stephane.Lentz@ansf.alcatel.fr> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: sentinel port : pkg-message missing Message-ID: <20030812213146.GA26372@iww.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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Hi, Jeff D. Hamann didn't use send-pr to report the problem apparently. Can anyone update the sentinel port to provide some clear pkg-message as I proposed below. Regards, SL/ --- Unofficial Milter Introduction & Products Lits available on http://mutt.free.fr/milter/ ----- Forwarded message from Steph L <Stephane.Lentz@ansf.alcatel.fr> ----- From: Steph L <Stephane.Lentz@ansf.alcatel.fr> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: almost there with sentinel milter installation... Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:20:00 +0200 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:50:40 -0700, Jeff D. Hamann <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> wrote: > I've almost got it, at least I think..... > > I've managed to update sendmail to 8.12.9 (FreeBSD 4.4) and have > successfully installed sentinel from the ports collection. I've copied the > sentinel.cf.SAMPLE to /etc/mail/sentinel.cf and renamed the > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/000.sentinel.sh to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sentinel.sh and > now I'm trying to figure out how to hook up sentinel in the > /etc/mail/freebsd.mc file to use the milter. The entries in the sendmail > reference book show entries like... > > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`progA', `S=local:/var/run/f1.sock, F=R') > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`progC', `S=inet:3333@localhost') > > so does this mean I should add the following entry to my freebsd.mc file > > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sentinel', `S=inet:25@localhost') > > ? I'm a little confused about how milters work and reading the README file > in /usr/ports/mail/sendmail/work/sendmail-8.12.9/libmilter didn't help me > much. > The sentinel-1.6.5b.tar.gz tarball comes with a README.Solaris that provides the relevant instructions (the README.FreeBSD provides other info) : << INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sentinel',`S=local:/var/run/sentinel/sock,T=S:2m;R:4m;E:6m') define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS',`sentinel') >> Use send-pr to ask the FreeBSD packager for sentinel to provide a pkg-message that will specify how to get it to work for instance : << Reconfigure sendmail to use sentinel, for example add this lines to your sendmail.mc (or freebsd.mc) : INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sentinel',`S=local:/var/run/sentinel/sock,T=S:2m;R:4m;E:6m')dnl define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS',`sentinel')dnl rebuild sendmail.cf and install it. >> FreeBSD 4.4 is old : please consider installing FreeBSD 4.8. Beware the README.FreeBSD specify << Unfortunately you cannot use "rbl" feature on FreeBSD platform. I didn't find reentrant gethostbyname() implementation for FreeBSD. If somebody find out right solution, please let me know and I implement it right away. >> Regards, SL/ --- Stephane Lentz Alcanet International, Internet Services ----- End forwarded message -----
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