Stuart Gathman
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94 lines
4.8 KiB
Plaintext
Title: Requirements
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<h2> Requirements </h2>
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<li> While the miltermodule will work with python 1.5, you probably
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want to use python 2.0 or better. The python code uses a number of
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python 2 features. The email support requires python 2.4.
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<li> Python must be configured with thread support. This is because
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pymilter uses sendmail's libmilter which requires thread support.
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<li> You must compile sendmail with libmilter enabled. In versions of
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sendmail prior to 8.12 libmilter is marked FFR (For Future Release) and
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is not installed by default.
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Sendmail 8.12 still does not enable libmilter by default. You must
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explicitly select the "MILTER" option when compiling.
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<li> Python milter has been tested against sendmail-8.11 through sendmail-8.13.
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<li> Python milter must be compiled for the specific version of sendmail
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it will run with. (Since the result is dynamically loaded, there could
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conceivably be multiple versions available and selected at startup - but
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that will have to wait.) This situation may only exist for sendmail
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versions prior to 8.12. The protocol seems designed for backward
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compatibility - and 8.12 is the first official milter release.
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<li> Mea Culpa! After reading the Python Style guide, I realize that
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my Python code is not up to snuff. Apparently mixed tabs and spaces
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are anathema to those using Windows editors, where tabs can be expanded using
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any arbitrary algorithm. Other than that, my
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intuition matched Guido's pretty well - although I like to indent by 2
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rather than 4. I will arrange to have tabs expanded to spaces when
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exporting new versions. Until then, beware!
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</menu>
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<h3> <a name="aix4"> AIX 4.1.5 Requirements </a> </h3>
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To create sendmail RPMs for AIX, you can download my AIX 4.1.5 spec files
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for <a href="/aix/sendmail.spec">sendmail-8.11.5</a>
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or <a href="/aix/sendmail12.spec">sendmail-8.12.3</a>. If you have
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not already set it up, I use a <a href="/aix/aix.spec">dummy RPM package</a>
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to represent the stuff that comes with AIX. You might also want
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my <a href="/aix/python.spec">python-2.1.1</a> spec file for AIX. It
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does not include Tk or curses modules, sorry. If y'all trust me, you can
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download rpms for AIX 4.x from my <a href="/aix">AIX RPM directory</a>.
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<p>
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Sendmail-8.12 renames
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libsmutil.a to libsm.a. Unfortunately, libsm.a is an important AIX system
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shared library. Therefore, I rename libsm.a back to libsmutil.a for
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AIX. This presents a problem for setup.py.
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<h3> <a name="rh72"> RedHat 7.2 Requirements </a> </h3>
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If you are running Redhat 7.2, the distributed version of sendmail
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now enables libmilter by default. RedHat 7.2 bundles
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the development libraries with the main sendmail package, so
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there is no sendmail-devel package. However, they forgot to include the
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headers! So you'll have to get the SRPM and modify it. I suggest
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moving the static libs to a devel package and adding the headers. If
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this is too much trouble, you can get the <a href="mfapi.h">mfapi.h</a>
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header for sendmail-8.6.11 from here and manually install it as
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<code>/usr/include/libmilter/mfapi.h</code>.
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<p>
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If you do modify the SRPM, I suggest renaming libsmutil.a
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to libsm.a - just like sendmail-8.12 will. If you manually install
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mfapi.h or don't rename libsmutil.a, you'll
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need to force <code>libs = ["milter", "smutil"]</code> in setup.py.
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<p>
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If you have installed python2, and want
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python-milter to use python2, add <code>python=python2</code> to setup.cfg
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and build with <code>python2 setup.py bdist_rpm</code>.
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<h3> <a name="rh62"> Redhat 6.2 Requirements </a> </h3>
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If you are running Redhat 6.2, the distributed version of sendmail
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does not enable libmilter. You can download the Redhat 7.2 sendmail.spec
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modified to compile on RedHat 6.2:
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<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/linux/rh62/sendmail-rhmilter.spec">
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sendmail-rhmilter.spec</a>. The <a
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href="ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1.7.0.src.rpm">
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SRPM for sendmail-8.11.6</a> is available from
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<a href="http://www.redhat.com">Redhat</a> under
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<a href="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html">
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Errata for RH6.2</a>. But that doesn't include the latest security
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patches since RH6.2 is no longer supported.
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<p>
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If y'all trust me, you can pick up source and binary sendmail RPMs for RH6.2
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from my <a href="http://www.bmsi.com/linux/rh62">linux downloads</a> directory.
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The lastest RPMs were built by taking a RH7.2 SRPMS and removing some
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RPM features from the spec file that RH6.2 doesn't support, then
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recompiling on RH6.2. You can check this by installing the RH7.2 SRPM,
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then diffing my sendmail.spec with theirs. Then run
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"rpm -bb sendmail-rhmilter.spec" when you are satisfied.
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<p>
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If you have installed python2, and want
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python-milter to use python2, add <code>python=python2</code> to setup.cfg
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and build with <code>python2 setup.py bdist_rpm</code>.
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You'll need to install the sendmail-devel package to compile milter.
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