On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:
The best way to test mimedefang in my experience is: 1) use a test server. 2) if you don't have a test server, buy one and go back to 1. 3) realise that your own workstation can also run sendmail and mimedefang, and use that as a test server, then go back to step 1 (if you're running windows, then this might be tricky, but then again, that's your own fault for using toys in a workplace) 4) if you must test on production, kill the production sendmail, edit /etc/services, find the line that says "smtp 25/tcp" and change it into "smtp 26/tcp" (ie put "26" where it said "25"), then fire up sendmail again, and telnet to port 26 to test stuff out (this won't work correctly if you setup multiple listening ports, for example on 587 or 465). 5) make a new sendmail config file with a separate queue dir, separate pid file location, mimedefang enabled on a different socket, and listening on a non-default port. Fire up a new copy of mimedefang if necessary, on the new port, and start sendmail with the new config file you generated.
A corollary to options 1, 2 and 3 (and in the name of completeness): use qemu or something similar (vserver, Xen, VMWare, etc..) to create a virtualized machine to test in. This should allow you to use your production environment on your desktop (whatever it is) quite easily. This is certainly easier that options 5 and 5 :) HTH, -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uga enterprise information technology services core services support ------------------------------------------- "In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit...." _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
