[packagers] clamav-milter for el2?

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> > 
> > > Any particular reason this is not built?
> > 
> > Yes, the sendmail that comes with EL2 does not have milter support (and
> > therefor clamav-milter cannot be build against it).
> 
> Not true.
> I've built clamav-milter against RHEL 2.1 with official Redhat sendmail 8.11.6
> since clamav 0.72 was released.
> Milter support in sendmail 8.11 requires and extra library at link time which
> clamav did not handle properly until the 0.75.1 release (where my proposed
> patch for configure was included upstream).
> 
> As I said I don't actually use clamav-milter but I've used other milters with
> RHEL 2.1 including when sendmail was at 8.11.6 and they've worked fine.

Ok. I might be mistaken. I just remember problems with older sendmails 
and since I disabled building the milter specifically for EL2.1 I figured 
that must have been the reason.

It is true that I never tried again after disabling it back then.

 
> > If you however replaced the official sendmail with a newer one, you can
> > rebuild that package yoursellf by adding rpmbuild --with-milter.
> 
> I didn't replace anything. This was with stock RHEL sendmail on 2.1.

Right. Still the solution was an acceptable solution even when you didn't 
:)

 
> > > I don't use it myself but it has built without error since 0.75.1 when
> > > configure was taught how to deal with sendmail 8.11 milter (and now el2 is
> > > officially at 8.12 so that's not even an issue anymore.)
> > 
> > Does EL2 now come with a newer sendmail ? I am stunned.
> 
> There was a remote security hole found in 8.11 last summer and Redhat
> responded by moving 2.1 to the same sendmail release level as RHEL 3.

I guess I missed that, but I doubt that would have made a difference wrt. 
clamav-milter.

 
> > Then we have to fix it :) Thanks for reporting.
> 
> I still run my MailScanner gateways on RHEL 2.1 :)

Oh, the company I do consulting for currently, only moved most systems the 
RHEL3 a few months ago. So I'm not surprised. If you pay for 7 years of 
support, you might as well take advantage of it. If it ain't broke, don't 
fix it.

Next update the clamav-milter for EL2.1 is available. Thanks for the 
feedback !

Kind regards,
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