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

Jim McCullars jim at info.uah.edu
Tue Nov 11 15:28:24 EST 2003



On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:

> I'm having a problem with mimedefang getting this error  "local socket name
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe".

   Are you sure that's MIMEDefang generating that error?  It looks like a
sendmail error.  It probably wants for root to own /var and /var/spool and
not have any group write permission.  Your defang user needs to own only
/var/spool/MIMEDefang.

   HTH...

Jim




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