RE: [AMaViS-user] Newby questions about FreeBSD 5.1 dual sendmail + ClamAV + amavisd-new-20030616-p9

[Olaf G. <og...@mi...>]

Hi all,

First off: I received two follow-ups on my initial question, thanks for
those!

The first one was a suggestion to just use the FreeBSD port. I actually
tried that previously but no magic then either (perhaps because of the
previous Perl misconfiguration on my machine?), besides, the latest Amavis
port thta sysinstall came up with was significantly older than the p9
release, and I couldn't readily find the latest package by other means
either.

The second message was basically a suggestion to drop the dual Sendmail
set-up and start using Postfix. While this in itself sounds like a good
suggestion, I already nearly had the dual Sendmail set-up going. Besides:
quite a few mail accounts were already in use, so I didn't really want to
risk messing around with porting those accounts to a different MTA.

Sooooo, I decided to be stubborn ;), and I just went ahead with the current
set-up and I decided to do indeed bring down all running Sendmail and Amavis
daemons. I then restarted them as mentioned in the dual sendmail tutorial
and found out in the log file that the clamd socket couldn't be found. I
corrected that in the /etc/amavis.conf file, reloaded the Amavis daemons,
and voila, everything works! :)

Everything seems to be running and working nicely and I tried some of
Amavis' test messages and they neatly get caught, generate a bounce to the
sender and send a notification to the virus administrator.

Thanks a lot to you out there who have contributed to making Amavis and
ClamAV; two truly great programs!!!

All I need now is a proper /etc/rc.d script to properly do whatever sendmail
requires before actually loading the deamons and which then starts the
daemons in the dual set-up. Does anyone happen to have a proper one?

If not, I'll have to use the one that's left over from the previous single
sendmail set-up and try to properly hack that...

Finally, what goes around, comes around (of course), so if anyone wants to
know anything about how I got the set-up going, please feel free to ask! :)

Cheers!
Olaf