[Mimedefang] Milter initialisation failing
Richard Cooper
ric at digital-animations.com
Tue Oct 22 12:05:01 EDT 2002
Man I hate it when I'm stupid. I simply hadn't mv'd mimedefang.sh-dist to mimedefang.sh. I just knew it would be one small step I had forgotten.
I apologise for being a thick pain in the behind.
Cheers
Ric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:dfs at roaringpenguin.com]
> Sent: 22 October 2002 15:32
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Milter initialisation failing
>
>
> 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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