[AMaViS-user] Bug with libmilter and Documentation problem

[Klaus S. <Klaus.Steinberger@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>]

Hello,


I've tried to install the CVS version of amavis-perl with libmilter
support. I found
out the following problems: 

1. A documentation problem:

	In the current version of amavis-perl with libmilter support, it is
necessary
	to start not only amavisd, but also amavis-milter, but this is not
mentioned in
	the documentation. A patch to the documentation is appended. 

2. amavisd does not get SENDER and Recipients of the mail

	The scan process works well, but amavisd does not see sender and
recipients, and
	so can not warn the sender of the mail.

	The reason for this problem is, that in amavis/mta/libmilter_args the
following two
	lines will be added:

	$SENDER=shift(@ARGV);
	@RECIPS=@ARGV; # put all the rest of the arguments as recipients

	But with libmilter amavisd never gets SENDER/RECIPS from the
commandline.
	There is working code to receive both from the socket before the two
lines mentioned
	above. So the already received names will be overwritten by empty
strings.
	A patch to libmilter_args is also appended.


Some more comments:

The current version with two daemon programs seems to be a little
overkill. I think there
is already a project for libmilter access directly from perl out there.
This should be
integrated, so that it is possible to connect directly from sendmail to
the amavisd socket.
For the short run, at least amavis-milter should be daemonized to avoid
nohup and friends.

Sincerely,
Klaus

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