[Mimedefang] Problem After Installing Mimedefang

[Dave Ellenberger]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:40:57 -0500, Mark Penkower wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I Just installed Mimedefang on my system.  I put the example startup 
> script in /etc/rc.d/init.d and rebooted.
> 
> Now, when I try to send mail, I get 451 4.7.1 Please try again later.
> 
> The mail log reports this:
> 
> Dec  1 10:37:06 questbarf sendmail[1010]: hB1Fb6Vl001010: Milter 
> (mimedefang): l
> ocal socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
> Dec  1 10:37:06 questbarf sendmail[1010]: hB1Fb6Vl001010: Milter 
> (mimedefang): t
> o error state
> Dec  1 10:37:06 questbarf sendmail[1010]: hB1Fb6Vl001010: Milter: 
> initialization
>   failed, temp failing commands
> 
> Please advise.

Something with the permissions of /var/spool/MIMEDefang isn't what
sendmail defines as secure enough. Usually this happens if you
have a g+w somewhere, this can also be a parrent directory, try to
aply this:

chmod g-w /var
chmod g-w /var/spool
chmod g-w /var/spool/MIMEDefang
chown defang /var/spool/MIMEDefang

-Dave