Re: [AMaViS-user] Recip is not being notified

[Mark M. <Mar...@ij...>]

Dominick,

| I was unable to install it with cpan had to manually do it and it worked. I
| then finished the install of amavis-new and encountered another problem. the
| incoming mail (virus or not) gets stuck in the sendmail queue with a
| deferred tag. I've been unable to find adequate help on this problem but
| I've seen that others have experienced it.

Having a mail stuck/requeued (TEMPFAIL) is the most common manifestation
of all kinds of initial installation problems, mostly due to some
installation problem or oversight, such as improper file permissions.
This in general applies to all versions or amavis.

The most informative is a look at amavis* and MTAs log file.
Without looking there, and perhaps raising the log level,
people on this list can't help.

With amavisd and amavisd-new it is useful to start it up for the
first time with $DEBUG="yes" set. This will turn up debugging level
and keep the program attached to the terminal.
(with amavisd-new-20020630 you just start it as: # amavisd debug )

| I do not have the libmilter stuff
| for sendmail so that's not an option. Should I pack it in and live with no
| recip notification in amavis-0.3.12pre8 or what?

Regarding the non-milter setup - so far the amavisd-new did not support
the traditional sendmail setup which calls amavis (client) as a local
delivery agent. This is due to a fact that amavisd daemon does not run
as root, and as such it can not call LDA to do a final delivery.

Just today I have modified the amavis.c client, so that
after checking the mail with the daemon, it calls LDA by itself
(instead of delegating this task to the daemon). The modified
client is at http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavis.c .
If someone is interested in trying it out with the traditional sendmail
setup (either in the relaying or in the local delivery configuration),
please drop me a private mail so that we can resolve any remaining
problems (as I don't run sendmail and am testing it only in a simulated
environment).

  Mark