[Mimedefang] Milter (mimedefang): to error state

Alex S Moore asmoore at edge.net
Thu Oct 28 07:15:48 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 12:53 +0200, Stefaan Van Hoornick wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I receive following error:
> 
> Oct 28 12:51:44 mail sendmail[659]: [ID 801593 mail.error] i9SApiO0000659: Milter (mimedefang): local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
> Oct 28 12:51:44 mail sendmail[659]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i9SApiO0000659: Milter (mimedefang): to error state

Sendmail does like the permissions on /var/spool/MIMEDefang.  Change the
permissions to 0700 or 0755 and make sure that the MD user owns the
directory.  Group and/or world writable does not work without turning
off a feature of sendmail (which is not recommended).

Alex




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