Re: How to disable spamd using milter w/ sendmail temporarily for testing?

[Andy Jezierski]

Dr Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/10/2005 07:48:14 AM:

> We are looking at doing some testing w/ Postini as our "outside" spam  
> filter. Currently we are running SA 3.0.4 internally, with the milter-
> spamc/sendmail combo.
>
> What is the "best" way to temporarily disable SA so it is removed  
> from the "test"? If we simply "stop" spamd,  will mail simply "pass  
> through" when sendmail recognizes that it is not getting a timely  
> response from the connecting milter?
>
> I want to avoid a sendmail "recompile" .

Just stop your milter. You'll get error messages in your sendmail log, but everything should still continue to work. Or if you want to eliminate the error messages, just comment out the entry for your milter in your sendmail config file and regenerate the sendmail.cf, no re-compile necessary.

Andy