Milter-greylist

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:41:55 -0500 Arjun Datta <arjun@...> wrote:

> For example:  the README mentions installing the greylist using configure &&
> make && make install. When I tried that it did not install properly as

These are general compiling from source instructions. You should run
./configure --help and adjust --prefix for your needs.

> various files that should have been in certain places were not there:
> 
> there was no greylist.conf in /etc/mail - I had to copy it over,

it was probably in /usr/local/etc/mail?

> there was no pid or sock file when I started the service (after copying the
> correct script over to /etc/rc.d/init.d)

Service could not be started because it was not able to create sock file
in /var/milter directory.

> So, when I was asking about rebuilding with 'user as smmsp' I meant when
> using rpmbuild and not using 'configure && make && make install'.  That
> would be mentioned in the man page for rpmbuild (which I have read) and I
> could not find it.  That is also not mentioned in the README.  Which is why
> I asked.

No, it isn't and shouldn't be mentioned in the man page for rpmbuild.
Actually it's mentioned in README of milter-greylist-3.1.5:

A .spec file is included in the distribution to build an RPM for
RedHat Linux. This is achieved by running rpmbuild on milter-greylist
source tarball: rpmbuild -tb milter-greylist-3.1.4.tgz. You can define
build_user, build_postfix, build_dnsrbl, build_libbind - for example,
to build with DNSRBL support and choose smmsp as the user that will run
milter-greylist, use
rpmbuild --define "build_user smmsp" --define "build_dnsrbl 1" -tb milter-greylist-3.1.4.tgz

If you use 3.0, then it's a bit more difficult - you should unpack the archive
and change %define user root to %define user smmsp in milter-greylist.spec,
then use rpmbuild -bb milter-greylist.spec.

> I only ask this - is the README the best and only place for learning how to
> fine tune the .conf file ?

Not only, also comments in greylist.conf and greylist2.conf, man page and
mailing list archives.

Regards,
Nerijus