Table of Contents
Installation
Things must be installed in the following sequence :
- The MTA - sendmail or postfix
- libmilter
- j-chkmail
- other tools
- RRDTool
- ClamAV
Sendmail and Postfix
Installing sendmail or postfix is out of the scope of this documentation. Specific information on how to configure these MTA can be found at Quick Start.
libmilter
- Go to the root of sendmail distribution tree.
# gunzip -c sendmail.8.14.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
# cd sendmail-8.14.1
- Create the file devtools/Site/site.config.m4 with the following content :
dnl
dnl Enable libmilter with a pool of workers
APPENDDEF(`conf_libmilter_ENVDEF',`-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL=1')
dnl Use poll instead of select
APPENDDEF(`conf_libmilter_ENVDEF',`-DSM_CONF_POLL=1')
dnl Enable IPv6
APPENDDEF(`conf_libmilter_ENVDEF',`-DNETINET6=1')
dnl
- Compile and install libmilter :
# cd libmilter
# ./Build
# ./Build install
Why install libmilter this way ???
Because thread model in libmilter bundled with sendmail 8.14.0 and newers versions is modified to work with a pool of workers instead of one thread per SMTP connection. This is very important for huge servers. To enable it, compile libmilter this way.
j-chkmail
Really simple :
./configure make su make install
Incredible, but you don't need anything other than a computer, some flavor of the UNIX Operating System (SunOS, FreeBSD or Linux) and an MTA (sendmail or postfix).
There are very few things you can/may configure at compile time. If you really need to do configure it in a non standard way, you'll probably find useful to take a look at compile.conf file inside distribution tree.
Have a look then at Quick Start
