From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 07:59:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E9A16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 07:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D2643D41 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 07:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (acs-24-154-235-189.zoominternet.net [24.154.235.189]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4PExKqm002643 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 25 May 2004 10:59:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:59:47 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: Bill Moran Message-Id: <20040525105947.1d758c66@localhost> In-Reply-To: <40B2B5A8.4070803@potentialtech.com> References: <20040524210543.59ced8d2@localhost> <40B2B5A8.4070803@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New doc? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:59:38 -0000 On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:55:36 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > Tom Rhodes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > While yes, I know, the MAC chapter needs completed; I got stuck > > setting up a greylisting server with Sendmail on 4.10-PRERELEASE. > > Damn, I must have sounded more excited about this than I realized ... Haha! Actually I just didn't feel like working on MAC with all the damn electrical storms we're having. > > > While it was a bastard working around the base perl and getting > > threads to work with perl on FreeBSD, I seemed to have successfully > > done it. > > > > Since I've found virtually NO documentation on doing this in FreeBSD, > > I wrote up some notes. > > > > If anyone is interested in looking them over for their own use, > > or thinks I should mark these up and add it to the handbook then > > please speak now. Failure to speak will result in me doing it > > next month anyway. :) > > Handbook? Perhaps an article? Lets see what everyone else thinks. But you're right, perhaps. Sendmail specific configurations may benefit from an article just as well. > > I'd be interested in looking over the notes anyway. I just did this > with Postfix, but I'd be curious as to what it takes to get sendmail > to do it. A lot of filthy language being tossed at perl and sendmail. To be honest though, it was much easier to get working than I thought. Just the port mail/p5-Sendmail-Milter isn't really broke as the latest commit by sobomax (we know him!) pointed out. Once you get the base system to accept the multi-threaded perl built from ports, you're good. It was just a hassle of job fixing other shit. I'll tell you about that funny story over the phone sometime. :) -- Tom Rhodes