Sendmail Sender Verification

[Mike Kercher]

I had some difficulty too, but got it figured out:

In milter-sender.cf (next to last line):

MilterSocket=unix:/var/lib/milter-sender/socket
#   (REQUIRED) the sendmail/milter socket type & name; see INPUT_MAIL_FILTER


I also changed this line:

MailLogDetail=4

so I could see it working.

service start milter-sender
service MailScanner restart
tail -f /var/log/maillog

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Gerry Doris
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:20 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Sendmail Sender Verification
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Rose, Bobby wrote:
>
> > I've been using milter-sender with sendmail for quite awhile to do
> > this with good success.
> >
> > http://www.snert.com/Software/milter-sender/
> >
> > But it still won't stop a spammer or virus from using a valid email
> > address but will stop bogus ones.  It also can do some
> other checks on
> > the sending system.
>
> I've been having trouble getting this work.  Specifically I'm
> having problems with how to define the milter-socket.  I
> assume I need to add
> Milter-Socket=/var/lib/milter-sender/socket in sendmail.mc somehow?
>
> I've copied the sample milter-sender.mc into sendmail.mc and
> rebuilt sendmail.cf.  The default INPUT_MAIL_FILTER macro
> specifies /var/lib/milter-sender/socket.  Do I create an
> empty file called socket in /var/lib/milter-sender?  If so,
> who should own it and what should be the permissions?
>
> --
> Gerry
>
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
>