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Re: [milter-greylist] How to use sendmail db files?

2006-10-24 by Jeff A. Earickson

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, eclark wrote:

Where?  I googled all over the place.  My perl popauth relay script
has worked correctly for a very long time, allowing sendmail relays
to authenticated pop users.

There needs to be some kind of method for troubleshooting the milter
itself.  My current technique is by-hand telnet to my port 25 from 
an outside connection, and seeing what happens after the sequence
of

EHLO
Mail From: <outside@...>
Rcpt To: <testuser@...>

But this is totally hit-or-miss, since I don't get much feedback
from my syslogs.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

> This is already documented. You edited your poprelayd right? Google will tell
> you how to do this.
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> On Monday 23 October 2006 05:16 pm, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>> Please, please a few more clues on troubleshooting...
>> I have tried many variants of the sendmail.cf settings, eg:
>>
>> # Milter options
>> O Milter.LogLevel=12
>> O Milter.macros.connect=j, {if_addr}
>> # O Milter.macros.helo={verify}, {cert_subject}
>> O Milter.macros.envfrom=i
>> O Milter.macros.envrcpt={popauth}
>> #O Milter.macros.eom={msg_id}
>>
>> I cannot get milter-greylist to whitelist anybody in the popauth
>> db, no matter what I do to greylist.conf or the sendmail.cf file.
>> I really need to get this working (and understand it).  Any good
>> reading on the milter macro settings above?
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, manu@... wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:50:50 +0200
>>> From: manu@...
>>> Reply-To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
>>> To: Milter Greylist list <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] How to use sendmail db files?
>>>
>>> Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick@...> wrote:
>>>> Do I need to modify my sendmail.cf too, to add some kind of
>>>> "O Milter.macros" line?
>>>
>>> As explained in greylist.conf(5), your sendmail.cf must contain a
>>> Milter.macros.envrcpt which includes {popauth}. e.g.:
>>> O Milter.macros.envrcpt={rcpt_mailer},{rcpt_host},
>>>        {rcpt_addr},{popauth}
>>>
>>> Also, your macro definition needs to include the curly braces:
>>> sm_macro "POP relay" "{popauth}" "OK"
>>>
>>> --
>>> Emmanuel Dreyfus
>>> http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
>>> manu@...
>>>
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