New version of bogofilter-milter.pl

Tom Anderson tanderso at oac-design.com
Thu Aug 9 04:42:59 CEST 2007


Sure.  Here's a new one which includes the ability to whitelist popip.db 
senders as well.  This way you don't have to filter email you send to 
yourself, and may be particularly useful for whitelisting emails to you 
from your users.

Tom

Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> Ugh.  An ed-style diff does me no good.  Please send a context diff 
> (diff -c) or unified diff (diff -u).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  jik
> 
> On 08/02/2007 03:46 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> I have a new patch for you for whitelisting particular mail servers,
>> such as localhost.  This lets you avoid classifying and rejecting stuff
>> from postmaster, et al, and allowing forwards from another server
>> without having to finagle in the magic string somehow.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>> Comments in-line.
>>>
>>> On 07/30/2007 07:15 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>>>> Comments in-line...
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> The change from 'mail' to 'LOG_MAIL' in the openlog call is wrong, 
>>>>> according to the Sys::Syslog documentation on my machine.  The 
>>>>> documentation says that you can use either a facility string, e.g., 
>>>>> 'mail', or a facility macro /without/ quotes, e.g., LOG_MAIL.  It 
>>>>> doesn't say that you're allowed to use 'LOG_MAIL' in quotes.  While 
>>>>> it's interesting that that works for you :-), since it's 
>>>>> contraindicated by the documentation and specifying 'mail' works 
>>>>> just fine for me, I don't think I can accept that patch.  Could you 
>>>>> dig a little deeper and see if you can figure out what's going on 
>>>>> at your end?  What version of Perl are you using (what does "perl 
>>>>> -v" return)?  What version of Sys::Syslog are you using (what does 
>>>>> "perl -e 'use Sys::Syslog; print $Sys::Syslog::Version;'" return)?
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> Seems to me like using "LOG_MAIL" is correct given the docs:
>>>> ...
>>>>   
>>> This looks like a difference between the version of Sys::Syslog 
>>> you're using and the one I'm using.  I'm using 0.18, but an earlier 
>>> version, 0.13, is shipped with Perl.  It looks to me like they got 
>>> more "liberal" about log facilities in most recent version.  Since it 
>>> appears that the 'LOG_MAIL' you suggested is compatible with both 
>>> 0.13 and 0.18, I've modified the script as you suggested to use that 
>>> string, even though it's not the syntax recommended by the 
>>> Sys::Syslog man page for version 0.18.
>>>
>>>> Sure, you can use my name/email.  Please make the email 
>>>> neo+bogofilter-milter at orderamidchaos.com.  Here are some comments 
>>>> you can append to the top (just an altered version of your comments):
>>>>   
>>> Thanks, I've put an updated version of your gentoo script as well as 
>>> an updated version of bogofilter-milter.pl up on my home page 
>>> (http://stuff.mit.edu/~jik/).
>>>
>>>> BTW, here's another issue I was having that you may or may not know 
>>>> something about.  When I put the bogofilter-milter below clamav in 
>>>> my sendmail.mc, everything works fine, but when I put clamav under 
>>>> it, it says the socket is unsafe.  Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Jul 30 19:10:50 [sm-mta] l6UNATfp026297: Milter (bogofilter-milter): 
>>>> local socket name /var/run/bogofilter-milter.sock unsafe
>>>> Jul 30 19:10:50 [sm-mta] l6UNATfp026297: Milter (bogofilter-milter): 
>>>> to error state
>>>>   
>>> Is it possible that the clamav milter is changing the permissions on 
>>> bogofilter-milter.sock?  Other than that, I have no guesses, sorry.  
>>> Perhaps ask about it in comp.mail.sendmail?
>>>
>>>   jik
>>
> 
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