milter manager: a milter to use milters effectively.

Site

https://milter-manager.osdn.jp/

License

Use the following rules:

• Files that describe their license: their license
• Commands: GPL3(license/gpl.txt)
• Documents: GFDL(license/fdl.txt)
• Images: Public Domain
• Libraries: LGPL3(license/lgpl.txt)

Here is a concrete list:

• Files that describe their license:
  • milter/core/milter-memory-profile.c: LGPL2+
• Commands: GPL3
  • src/*
  • tool/*
• Documents: GFDL
  • README, README.ja
  • doc/*
• Images: Public Domain
  • doc/.svg, doc/.png, html/.svg, html/.png
• Libraries: LGPL3
  • others than those above

milter manager

milter manager is a milter to use multiple milters effectively.

If milter manager is introduced, milter manager administrates milters instead of MTA. The has some advantages:

• reduce milter administration cost
• combine milters flexibly

See Introduction for more details.

Dependencies

• MTA that supports milter
  • Sendmail >= 8.13.8
  • Postfix >= 2.3.3
• GLib >= 2.12.3
• Ruby >= 1.8.5
• UN*X OS
  • Linux（Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS）
  • FreeBSD, NetBSD
  • Solaris

Optional dependencies

• Cutter: unit testing framework for C

  = 1.0.6

  It is needed for 'make check' and 'make coverage'.

• LCOV: graphical front-end for GCC's coverage testing tool gcov

  It is needed for 'make coverage'.

  LCOV - the LTP GCOV extension

• RRDtool (It's better that bundled Ruby bindings are also installed)

  It is needed for milter-manager-log-analyzer.

  RRDtool

Install

See Install

Configuration

See Configuration

Usage

milter-manager command is installed into sbin/ not bin/. In most cases, normal user doesn't include sbin/ in PATH. You will need to use absolute path.

If you don't specify --prefix option for configure script, milter-manager is installed into /usr/local/sbin/. You can run milter-manager like the following:

% /usr/local/sbin/milter-manager --help

Available options are shown if installation is succeeded. See milter-manager for more details.

Tools

milter manager includes some useful tools. They are installed into bin/.

• milter-test-server: It talks MTA side milter protocol. It can be used for testing a milter without MTA.
• milter-test-client: It is a milter that just shows received data from MTA. It can be used for confirming what data is sent from MTA.
• milter-performance-check: It is a SMTP client that measures MTA performance.
• milter-manager-log-analyzer: It analyzes log of milter-manager and visualizes behavior of milters registered to milter-manager.

Mailing list

There is milter-manager-users-en mailing list. Questions and bug reports are accepted on it. New release announce is also done on the mailing list. If you are using milter manager, it's a good idea that you subscribe the mailling list.

Old: milter-manager-users-en

Source code

The latest source is available from the Git repository:

% git clone https://github.com/milter-manager/milter-manager.git

Thanks

• OBATA Akio: reported a bug.
• Павел Гришин: reported bugs.
• Fumihisa Tonaka:
  • reported bugs.
  • suggested new features.
• sgyk: reported bugs.
• Tsuchiya: reported bugs.
• Syunsuke Komma: reported a bug.
• Yuto Hayamizu:
  • cleaned test.
  • added useful features for creating milter by Ruby.
• gorimaru: suggested usage improvements.
• ZnZ:
  • fixed typos.
  • reported useful advises.
• Antuan Avdioukhine: suggestions.
• SATOH Fumiyasu:
  • reported bugs.
  • improved Solaris support.
• ROSSO: reported a bug.
• akira yamada:
  • reported a bug.
  • suggested about Debian package.
• Kenji Shiono:
  • reported bugs.
  • suggested new features.
• Jordao:
  • reported a bug.
• Mitsuru Ogino:
  • reported bugs.
• moto kawasaki:
  • added /etc/rc.conf.local loading support on FreeBSD.

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