The MIMEDefang HOWTOMickey Hill. Last updated May 2. Recent Changes. May 2. Updated MIMEDefang version    Updated sendmail version    Other minor updates. This document is intended to guide an administrator through the. Linux, BSD derivative, or UNIX system based mail server with. Matijs. net Software MSGConvert A. MSG to mbox converter Introduction. I wrote this to be able to convert some. MSG files I had lying around. The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome Note this is the flat content of the web site libxml, a. Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace. Gert van Loo Dom, have provided some tested code which accesses the GPIO pins through direct GPIO register manipulation in Ccode. Thanks to Dom for doing the. Failed To Install Cpan Perl Modules' title='Failed To Install Cpan Perl Modules' />MIMEDefang, spam filtering software, and antivirus software. Introduction. This document was written to guide a mail system administrator through the. Linux, BSD derivative, or UNIX. MIMEDefang. Other useful software. Ancillary software is also described, including POP3, IMAP, and. A mail server is used to transfer electronic mail using SMTP Simple Mail. Transfer Protocol. This is widely accomplished through the use of. Linux, a BSD derivative, or UNIX, and sendmail, a popular MTA. While a mail server can operate successfully with only. Linux, a BSD derivative, or UNIX, and sendmail, many administrators, especially. A mail server can be rounded out with end user mail retrieval. Installation and configuration questions can be posted to the MIMEDefang. Send corrections, suggestions, and comments about this HOWTO to. Please do not send installation or. MIMEDefang. 1. 3 Copyrights and Trademarks. The MIMEDefang HOWTO is Copyright c 2. Mickey Hill. Permission is. GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front Cover Texts. Back Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section. GNU Free Documentation License. MIMEDefang is a trademark of. Roaring Penguin Software Inc. Can. It is a trademark of. Roaring Penguin Software Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of. The Open Group in the United States and. Fedora is a trademark or registered. Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red. Hat, Inc. Slackware is a registered trademark of. Slackware Linux, Inc. Yellow Dog is a trademark of Terra Soft Solutions of Colorado, Inc. Solaris is a trademark or. Sun Microsystems, Inc. United States and other countries. BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. AIX is a trademark or. IBM Corporation. IRIX is a trademark or. Silicon Graphics, Inc. United States and other countries. Sendmail is a registered trademark of. Sendmail, Inc. QPopper is a trademark of. QUALCOMM Inc. Network Associates and Mc. Afee are registered trademarks of Network. Associates, Inc. Anti. Vir is a registered trademark of HBEDV Datentechnik Gmb. H. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the. Acknowledgements and Credits. Thanks to Dianne Skoll. Roaring Penguin Software. MIMEDefang and providing some of the text and. Thanks also to everyone on the MIMEDefang. MIMEDefang is an open source product, and technical support is primarily. MIMEDefang mailing list. For commercial support, please. Can. It, a commercial. MIMEDefang and offered by Roaring Penguin Software. This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but. WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY. FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. What is MIMEDefang MIMEDefang is a software program for sendmail based mail servers that. MIMEDefang uses sendmails built in milter, or mail filter. MIMEDefang is. designed specifically for sendmail, and is not compatible with other mail. MIMEDefang provides an interface between sendmail and other. MIMEDefang provides a complete, robust, and configurable. A typical MIMEDefang installation consists of sendmail, MIMEDefang. Spam. Assassin, and one or more open source or commercial antivirus scanners. MIMEDefang uses the milter, or mail filter, interface provided by sendmail to. MIMEDefang can also send messages to external programs for further. MIMEDefang remains in. MIMEDefang consists of four major components mimedefang. C, and is the actual mail. Perl processes that. Perl script. mimedefang. Perl fragment that is read by mimedefang. This configuration file is where the vast majority. Activador De Microsoft Office 2010. More advanced configurations can entirely replace mimedefang. MIMEDefang is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Requirements. A computer with Linux, a BSD derivative, or UNIX installed and capable of. Internet is required. All other required software can be. Internet. In general, hardware requirements are the same as for sendmail. However. antivirus and spam detection software often require additional hardware. Perl 5. 0. 01 or greater is required by MIMEDefang. Some other packages. This HOWTO was written using Red Hat Linux 7. Fedora. Core 5 Linux. Installation on other versions of Linux, on a BSD derivative, or. UNIX should be similar however, directory and file names and locations may. Correct timekeeping is essential to any mail server. NTP network time protocol and ntpd the NTP daemon are recommended for this purpose. A permanent connection to the Internet is assumed. While a mail server with. Known to Compile. MIMEDefang should compile on any modern Linux, BSD derivative, or UNIX. It has been known to compile on the following systems. Fedora Core 6 Linux. Fedora Core 5 Linux. Fedora Core 4 Linux. Fedora Core 3 Linux. Fedora Core 2 Linux. Fedora Core 1 Linux. Red Hat Linux 9. Red Hat Linux 8. Red Hat Linux 7. 3. Red Hat Linux 7. 2. Red Hat Linux 7. 1. Red Hat Linux 7. 0. Red Hat Linux 6. 2. Red Hat Linux 6. 1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Slackware Linux 1. Slackware Linux 1. Slackware Linux 9. Slackware Linux 8. Slackware Linux 8. Slackware Linux 7. Slackware Linux 7. Yellow Dog Linux 3. Caldera Open Linux 3. Linux From Scratch 3. Ubuntu 2. 6. 1. 5 5. Free. BSD 5. 2. 1 RELEASE. Free. BSD 4. 9 STABLE. Free. BSD 4. 5 STABLE. Tru. 64 Unix 5. 0. A. If you have successfully compiled and installed MIMEDefang on a system not. Mickey Hill. lt mickeymickeyhill. MIMEDefang has been operated on single mail servers processing fewer than. Installation Notes. Dont make, build, compile or run software as the root user. Instead. make as a normal user, use su c to install, and configure daemons to. The more you think this doesnt apply to you, the more it does. Install sendmail. Sendmail Home Page. Sendmail version 8. MIMEDefang. Version 8. Earlier versions 8. Versions prior to 8. Although many people have success installing sendmail from vendor packages. Overview. Download and unpack the source. Enable milter support in devtoolsSitesite. Build the source. Create cfcfsendmail. Build and install the cf files. Create smmsp user and group. Create symbolic link for man page directory. Install. Build and install mailstats. Build and install makemap. Build and install libmilter. Build and install smrsh. Install headers and libraries for MIMEDefang. Edit etcmaillocal host names. Edit etcmailrelay domains. Edit etcmailvirtusertable. Edit etcmailaliases. Create etcinit. MIMEDefang support. Link startup script in rc. Installation. Create the usrsrcsendmail directory and cd to it. The latest source is available from. This example uses version 8. Download the source at. Unpack the source. Remove the source. Cd into the sendmail 8. Beginning with version 8. API. Also, libmilter will not unlink a socket when running as. In versions prior to 8. DMILTER. To do this, create devtoolsSitesite. APPENDDEFconfsendmailENVDEF, DMILTER. APPENDDEFconflibmilterENVDEF, DFFRMILTERROOTUNSAFE. The first APPENDDEF enables the mail filter interface. The second APPENDDEF. It is strongly. recommended that MIMEDefang is not run as root. MIMEDefang does not need root. To enable SMTP AUTH, devtoolsSitesite.