[SLUG] Sendmail &libmilter

["Simon Bryan" <sbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
Looking for help on a procedural matter. I am about to setup
Spam Assassin and need to use the libmilter setup in Sendmail. This is on
a RH9 server where Sendmail was installed by the installation program from
an rpm. I don't think it has libmilter support built in. So I will
download the latest Sendmail and then compile it for libmilter - looks
reasonably straightforward. I have no experience with the m4? files so
that will be a bit of fun along the way! However I do know some of the
settings I need in my final sendmail.cf file so can always edit the final
one by hand. My plan is:

1. Download sendmail
2. Make the
modifications needed for libmilter
3. Compile
4. Uninstall current
Sendmail rpm *****do I need to do this?
5. Install new sendmail
6.
Run the mc file
7. Check and edit sendmail.cf
8. restart
sendmail

This is on a production server, I do not have the luxury
of having a test machine - or at least one that will take RH9 - so I need
to get the planning right. If all goes well, Sendmail will be down for
less than 10 minutes and the users might not even notice.

Anyone
want to comment?


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Simon Bryan
Who has
the title :IT Manager  :-)
OLMC Parramatta