problems with dkim-milter and mailscanner/postfix

andrew colin andrew.colin at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 08:11:49 IST 2008


Paul, if you need help getting your DKIM signing working post on the
howtoforge forum and i will try to help.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:10 AM, andrew colin <andrew.colin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been investigating this issue as i have also come across it,
>  Well as the postfix queue format is not
>  documented my assumptions were just guess work so correct me if i am
>  wrong, i was under the assumption
>  that the integer values at the beginning of the queue file represent
>  the side of the message.
>
>  What i picked up was that even after the milter inserted the extra
>  headers to the message these values
>  remained the same the perl module resonsible for reading the queue
>  file and processing it was then
>  unable to due to the fact that it was not reading to the wrong place
>  within the queue file.
>
>  P.S and yes postfix on Centos 5.1 comes with milter support built in.
>
>  Andrew
>
>  On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Paul Hutchings
>
>
> <paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk> wrote:
>  > I'm pretty sure the DNS records were correct but for some reason
>  >  outbound mail wasn't being signed.
>  >
>  >  Appreciate any suggestions on the "best" choice of DKIM add-on to sign
>  >  outbound email using Postix on Centos 5.
>  >
>  >
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>  >  [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Glenn
>  >  Steen
>  >
>  > Sent: 21 April 2008 18:57
>  >  To: MailScanner discussion
>  >  Subject: Re: problems with dkim-milter and mailscanner/postfix
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On 21/04/2008, Paul Hutchings <paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk> wrote:
>  >  > Sorry I've missed a lot of info, wasn't sure exactly what was
>  >  relevant.
>  >  >
>  >  >  I'm on Centos 5.x with Postfix 2.3.3 and 4.68.8.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Oddly enough upgrading MailScanner to the latest release (it was on
>  >  >  4.67.9 I think) would appear to have fixed whatever was happening.
>  >  There was a bug in the queue file handling code for "postfix with
>  >  milter" that should only have concerned later versions of Postfix ,
>  >  but ... Likely that is what fixed it. The fix to that code, I mean:-).
>  >  The symptoms indicate that at least... Then again, there are many
>  >  things that can have that particular effect:-).
>  >
>  >  >  DKIM still isn't working but that's down to some issues getting the
>  >  DNS
>  >  >  record in place properly.
>  >
>  >  Good luck.
>  >
>  >  >  Cheers,
>  >  >
>  >  > Paul
>  >  >
>  >  Cheers
>  >  --
>  >  -- Glenn
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