Modified spamass-milter ebuild to have a dependency to libmilter instead having a dependency to Sendmail. This allows me to run spamass-milter with Postfix >=2.3.0 Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 118348 [details] mail-filter/spamass-milter/spamass-milter-0.3.1-r2.ebuild
Created attachment 118350 [details] mail-filter/spamass-milter/files/README.gentoo Modified readme to include instructions on how to integrate spamass-milter into Postfix >= 2.3.0
Created attachment 118352 [details] mail-filter/spamass-milter/files/spamass-milter.conf3 /etc/conf.d/spamass-milter file
Created attachment 118354 [details] mail-filter/spamass-milter/files/spamass-milter.rc3 /etc/init.d/spamass-milter file
This seems to be a good idea and it is working for me.
(In reply to comment #5) > This seems to be a good idea and it is working for me. > With Postfix or with Sendmail?
with postfix-2.3.8 and libmilter-8.13.7
(In reply to comment #7) > with postfix-2.3.8 and libmilter-8.13.7 > Cool :) I am working here with Postfix 2.4.1 and it works without problems :)
And i have to say, i really love this. It's by far the cleanest way i ever included spamassassin in a mta.
Cut the talk, there's no need to sell the idea when i'm fine with it :-) I'm checking with net-mail devs (since i just maintain spamass-milter) on the best approach for this, for instance if postfix can provide a libmilter replacement to make it let's say "cleaner" or more native (i'm a sendmail user btw). Otherwise this approach is fine.
(In reply to comment #10) > I'm checking with net-mail devs (since i just maintain spamass-milter) on the > best approach for this, for instance if postfix can provide a libmilter > replacement to make it let's say "cleaner" or more native (i'm a sendmail user > btw). The best approach is to use libmilter. It makes no sense for postfix to provide own library for same protocol. Milter is protocol, not library API. Packages like spamass-milter, dk-milter, sendmail, etc just use libmilter to be able to use/provide milter protocol functionality. Postfix internally implements their own milter protocol support to avoid external dependencies.
(In reply to comment #11) > (In reply to comment #10) > > I'm checking with net-mail devs (since i just maintain spamass-milter) on the > > best approach for this, for instance if postfix can provide a libmilter > > replacement to make it let's say "cleaner" or more native (i'm a sendmail user > > btw). > > The best approach is to use libmilter. It makes no sense for postfix to provide > own library for same protocol. Milter is protocol, not library API. Packages > like spamass-milter, dk-milter, sendmail, etc just use libmilter to be able to > use/provide milter protocol functionality. Postfix internally implements their > own milter protocol support to avoid external dependencies. > Postfix uses libmilter. Read here for more info: http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html And Sendmail is using libmilter as well since quite some time. So switching spamass-milter to use libmilter is the save approach for both packages.
(In reply to comment #12) > Postfix uses libmilter. Read here for more info: > http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html No, postfix itself doesn't use libmilter, but milter-based filters like dk-milter, spamass-milter, etc. use libmilter. The README just tells how to install milters based on libmilter library. > And Sendmail is using libmilter as well since quite some time. So switching > spamass-milter to use libmilter is the save approach for both packages. My understanding is that mail-mta/sendmail package contains libmilter, and there is a mail-filter/libmilter for those who don't want sendmail. So the solution is one of: 1) make spamass-milter (and other milters) depend on || (mail-mta/sendmail mail-filter/libmilter) - this approach is already used in amavisd-new and mimedefang packages 2) separate libmilter out of sendmail, make sendmail depend on libmilter with USE flag "milter", make all milters depend on libmilter directly - more elegant and modularized, but requires heavier changes First approach is trivial change in DEPENDS for spamass-milter.
The problem with libmilter (net-mail devs can correct me if i'm wrong) is that IMHO it won't go stable soon since the sendmail and libmilter dev is MIA, so it's lagging behind. I'm all for a solution but i'm not a member of the net-mail herd, i just maintain this and i'd want this to go stable when possible.
(In reply to comment #13) > (In reply to comment #12) > > > Postfix uses libmilter. Read here for more info: > > http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html > > No, postfix itself doesn't use libmilter, but milter-based filters like > dk-milter, spamass-milter, etc. use libmilter. The README just tells how to > install milters based on libmilter library. > Right. Postfix does not need libmilter. > > And Sendmail is using libmilter as well since quite some time. So switching > > spamass-milter to use libmilter is the save approach for both packages. > > My understanding is that mail-mta/sendmail package contains libmilter, and > there is a mail-filter/libmilter for those who don't want sendmail. So the > solution is one of: > > 1) make spamass-milter (and other milters) depend on || (mail-mta/sendmail > mail-filter/libmilter) > - this approach is already used in amavisd-new and mimedefang packages > > 2) separate libmilter out of sendmail, make sendmail depend on libmilter with > USE flag "milter", make all milters depend on libmilter directly > - more elegant and modularized, but requires heavier changes > I like that one much more. > First approach is trivial change in DEPENDS for spamass-milter. >
(In reply to comment #14) > The problem with libmilter (net-mail devs can correct me if i'm wrong) is that > IMHO it won't go stable soon since the sendmail and libmilter dev is MIA, so > it's lagging behind. > What is MIA? > I'm all for a solution but i'm not a member of the net-mail herd, i just > maintain this and i'd want this to go stable when possible. > I think for the moment you could implement option 1 from comment #13 and later maybe switch to option 2. What do you think?
Created attachment 121156 [details] mail-filter/spamass-milter/files/spamass-milter.conf3 Corrections regarding the "-m" flag.
Created attachment 121158 [details] mail-filter/spamass-milter/files/README.gentoo Corrections for Postfix >= 2.4.0
libmilter is stable, why not add it as dependency for libmilter? I remember it was some time ago. I do not want to use sendmail, Postfix works OK for me on Gentoo and Debian systems. I use spamass-milter with actively used Postfix on Debian and all works fine, why it should not work fine on Gentoo so that you can not fix this for almost an year?
(In reply to comment #19) > I remember it was some time ago. Sorry, this was for clamav. And I don't see reasons for spamass to not work if clamav works.
(In reply to comment #20) > Sorry, this was for clamav. And I don't see reasons for spamass to not work if > clamav works. The Gentoo developer that this bug was assigned to retired some time ago. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml?statusFilter=Retired
I added spamass-milter-0.3.1-r2 to CVS which includes these fixes. Thanks guys!
still unstable ?
