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Perl Milter
Posted:
Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:02 amby maratheamit
Gist of email from Josh to Amit:
It seems to me that the best thing we could to is to focus on getting the Perl::Milter implementation up and running because that would possibly remove a great deal of overhead.
It looks like the Perl::Milter module required multithreaded perl -- we've got that on the test machine, but not the prod machine.
Also, it looks like you can't install Perl::Milter using MCPAN, because the Makefile.PL script requires access to sendmail libs (maybe source, I can't remember) -- that's where I left off when I was last working on it.
Posted:
Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:04 amby maratheamit
I was able to install Sendmail::Milter on the test machine. Haven't tested it as yet. Before I can do that, I need to setup my environment on the test server.
Posted:
Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:53 pmby maratheamit
I was able to setup the site but cannot log in.
http://a.com/index.pl
You will need a local entry in your /etc/hosts for the above link to work.
Any idea what is happening?
Posted:
Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:18 pmby josh
oh. that makes sense. I guess I really hadn't though about the web interface, but it is key
Posted:
Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:55 pmby maratheamit
I can now run milter scripts on the test server. It is using Sendmail::PMilter because Sendmail::Milter wasn't working properly and is not being maintained.
It would be a bad idea to move all processing into the milter script as that would make SG sendmail-specific. So what I propose is to use the milter to discard recepient addresses which have already expired. That itself should remove a big load from the server.
Posted:
Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:26 amby josh
Amit -- wow -- great news! I was thinking we could continue to modularize the sg code, then have a basic controller routine that would be small enough to maintain both in Milter and as a standalone. Does that make sense? More work, of course.
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Sun Dec 26, 2004 4:20 pmby maratheamit
Makes sense. Let me think along those lines. In the meantime, can you install all the necessary software on the production machine? We need:
Perl with -Dusethreads
Sendmail with -DMILTER
Sendmail::Milter and Sendmail::PMilter
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:42 amby SysKoll
Josh,
I know it's been hectic, but did you get around these installs? Since our goal is Milters, this seems to be an important prereq.