[Mimedefang] Milter initialisation failing

[Richard Cooper]

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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