[Mimedefang] socket unsafe? What the heck??

G. Roderick Singleton gerry at pathtech.org
Sat Jun 28 19:40:01 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 19:16, Michael W. Cocke wrote:
> Sorry about the wrap -  these are from my maillog file.  Since I have
> no idea what the error means, I don't have a clue where to look for
> whatever I've done wrong <sigh>  The path exists and has the
> permissions and ownership the README file specifies.  
> 
> Jun 28 19:06:23 badlands sendmail[4989]: h5SN6NeR004989: Milter
> (mimedefang): local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
> unsafe
> 
> Jun 28 19:06:23 badlands sendmail[4989]: h5SN6NeR004989: Milter
> (mimedefang): to error state
> 
> Jun 28 19:06:23 badlands sendmail[4989]: h5SN6NeR004989: Milter:
> initialization failed, temp failing commands
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Mike-
> 
> 

When I had this problem, it turned out to be a spelling error in my
sendmail.mc. e.g. MIMEdefang != MIMEDefang. If you cut an pasted this is
a likely source for the error you see.

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Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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