[Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

[Craig Green]

Lisa Casey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I added define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `mimedefang')dnl to sendmail.mc,
> regenerated  and installed the cf, then restarted  sendmail and 
> mimedefang.
> Now mimedefang  is trying to scan messages (which it wasn't before) 
> but is
> going into an error state:
>
> May 12 12:57:12 radius sm-mta[68449]: j4CGvC6p068449: Milter 
> (mimedefang):
> to error state
> May 12 12:57:12 radius sm-mta[68450]: j4CGvCAo068450: Milter 
> (mimedefang):
> to er ror state
>
Yes, but what's causing the error state?  Grep for the queue IDs to see 
the rest of the log lines associated with those emails.  E.g., using an 
ID above:

grep j4CGvC6p068449 /var/log/maillog

You should see something like this:

May 12 13:03:26 pumice3 sm-mta[62824]: j4CH3Ql5062824: Milter 
(mimedefang): local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
May 12 13:03:26 pumice3 sm-mta[62824]: j4CH3Ql5062824: Milter 
(mimedefang): to error state

or

May 12 13:04:58 pumice3 sm-mta[58357]: j4CH1d0P058357: Milter 
(mimedefang): write(Q) returned -1, expected 5: Broken pipe
May 12 13:04:58 pumice3 sm-mta[58357]: j4CH1d0P058357: Milter 
(mimedefang): to error state


The first lines tell you what caused the error state.

I'd guess it's a socket problem.  What user are you running Sendmail as 
and what user are you running MD as?  On (recent) FreeBSD boxes, the 
answer to both should be 'mailnull'.  (If you installed MD from ports, 
didn't override MAILUSER in the port Makefile, and didn't modify 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh, then MD is certainly running as 
mailnull.)

Also, what are the permissions of /var/spool/MIMEDefang like?  I.e. the 
output of:

cgreen:pumice3:/usr/local/etc/rc.d# ls -la /var/spool/MIMEDefang/
total 10
drwx--x---   3 mailnull  wheel     512 May 12 14:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x  10 root      wheel     512 Jan 12 12:00 ../
-rw-r-----   1 mailnull  wheel       6 May 12 13:03 
mimedefang-multiplexor.pid
srw-------   1 mailnull  wheel       0 May 12 13:03 
mimedefang-multiplexor.sock=
-rw-r-----   1 mailnull  wheel       6 May 12 13:03 mimedefang.pid
srwxr-x---   1 mailnull  wheel       0 May 12 13:03 mimedefang.sock=


Regards,

Craig.
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> And these are the only messages in maillog regarding mimedefang.
>
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Lisa
>
>
>