[Mimedefang] local socket name unsafe: permission denied

[Jeff Rife]

On 6 Mar 2007 at 13:41, Daniel Seider wrote:

> Initializing SMTP port (sendmail)451 4.0.0 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 1580:
> Xmimedefang: local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
> unsafe: Permission denied
> 
> Here are the directory permissions:
> 
> drwxr-x--- 2 defang defang 48 2007-03-06 10:05 MD-Quarantine
> drwxr-x--- 2 defang defang 208 2007-03-06 10:25 MIMEDefang

I had similar issues with sendmail 8.13.x and found the only thing that 
seemed to solve it was to use the following permissions (I list all the 
way back to the root even though they are the default because sendmail 
will complain if those are wrong):

/:
drwxr-xr-x 22 root   root   4.0K Mar  4 19:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root   root   4.0K Feb 13 21:18 var

/var:
drwxr-xr-x 13 root   root   4.0K Feb 15 16:42 spool

/var/spool:
drwxr-x--- 22 defang root    540 Mar  6 04:33 MIMEDefang

/var/spool/MIMEDefang:
srwxr-x---  1 defang defang    0 Mar  4 19:28 mimedefang.sock

I don't recall if having group root on the /var/spool/MIMEDefang 
directory is really required (I set this up long ago), but what I have 
works.


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