[Mimedefang] local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe

[Paul Rogers]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to libmilter and mimedefang so excuse me if I may have missed
something but I'm having an issue getting it working. At the moment,
sendmail doesn't handle any e-mail, it keeps returning a 451 error. Within
/var/log/maillog I see the following:

May 24 12:20:52 purple sm-msp-queue[3380]: h4L3200q003044: to=root,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=3+08:18:52, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=7590242, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.7.1 Please
try again later
May 24 12:21:00 purple sendmail[3384]: h4OBL0v9003384: Milter (mimedefang):
local socket name /var/spool/mimedefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
May 24 12:21:00 purple sendmail[3384]: h4OBL0v9003384: Milter (mimedefang):
to error state
May 24 12:21:00 purple sendmail[3384]: h4OBL0v9003384: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands

I've had a search on Google and the only reference to the unsafe socket
error is on this mailing list in a posting from Jim McCullars. My
permissions are very similar to his and I don't understand how they can be
classified as unsafe.

drwxr-xr-x   25 root     root         1024 May 23 15:45 /
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root         1024 May  6 00:15 /var
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 May 11 20:32 /var/spool
drwx------    2 spamd    spamd        4096 May 23 15:46
/var/spool/mimedefang

[root at purple /]# ls -la /var/spool/mimedefang/
total 16
drwx------    2 spamd    spamd        4096 May 23 15:46 .
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 May 11 20:32 ..
-rw-------    1 spamd    spamd           4 May 23 15:46
mimedefang-multiplexor.pid
srw-rw----    1 spamd    spamd           0 May 23 15:46
mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
-rw-------    1 spamd    spamd           4 May 23 15:46 mimedefang.pid
srw-rw----    1 spamd    spamd           0 May 23 15:46 mimedefang.sock

Any help would be greatly appreciated - Jim: did you issue get resolved and
if so how did you do it? :)

Thanks,

Paul Rogers.