[Mimedefang] Milter initialisation failing
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Oct 22 10:32:01 EDT 2002
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Richard Cooper wrote:
> I asked this yesterday and (call me impatient :) didn't illicit any
> responses, but it has really become a sticking point as I can't figure
Show us exactly the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER line, and how you're running
mimedefang and mimedefang-multiplexor. This error is usually caused
by trying to talk directly to the multiplexor (i.e., giving the multiplexor's
UNIX-domain socket in INPUT_MAIL_FILTER).
Here's a picture of how it works:
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+
| sendmail | | sendmail | | sendmail |
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+
\ | /
\ | / MILTER
\ | /
+------------+
| mimedefang |
+------------+
|
| PRIVATE PROTOCOL
|
+------------------------+
| mimedefang-multiplexor |
+------------------------+
Sendmail talks to mimedefang using Milter, via a UNIX-domain or TCP socket.
mimedefang, in turn, talks to mimedefang-multiplexor over a UNIX-domain
socket using a private protocol documented in mimedefang-protocl(7).
If you try to talk to mimedefang-multiplexor directly with milter, it will
fail.
--
David
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