[Mimedefang] multiplexor error - solaris

Albert E. Whale, CISSP aewhale at ABS-CompTech.com
Thu Mar 27 16:43:00 EST 2003


Thanks Jim, I just got the MILTER to work, and certainly appreciate the 
reply.

As far as the permissions go, my problem most importantly is the local 
tools (mail, pine ....) cannot seem to send mail with the 'correct' 
permission settings.  Any ideas?

Jim McCullars wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Mar 27 14:06:36 ns1 sendmail[22859]: dangerous permissions=41777 on
>>queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/
>>    
>>
>
>   You didn't ask about this one, but you need to make that direcroty
>owned by group smmsp with permissions 770.  Then make your
>/usr/lib/sendmail owned by group smmsp with the set group-id bit set.
>That should take care of the dangerous permissions message.
>
>  
>
>>Mar 27 14:06:58 ns1 sendmail[22865]: h2RJ6mMC022865:
>>milter_read(mimedefang): cmd read returned 0, expecting 5
>>    
>>
>
>   Look at the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER definition in your sendmail.mc file.
>Does it point to the mimedefang sock, or to the multiplexor sock?  I think
>you will get this error if you point to the wrong sock file.  Sendmail
>talks to mimedefang via (on my system)
>
>	/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
>
>and then mimedefang talks to the multiplexor via
>
>	/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
>
>   HTH...
>
>Jim
>
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