[Mimedefang] error

[vinita batra]

Hi Sir,

Mimedefang is running properly.

permissions on /var/spool/MIMEDefang are drwxr-x---

and permissions on mimedefang.sock are
srwxr-x---

and google has many hits but there is no answer on google itself

Thanks and Regards,
Vinita Batra/

On Jan 3, 2008 2:36 PM, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 7:33 AM, vinita batra <batra.vinita at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i have added following line in sendmail.mc file
> >
> > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang',
> > `S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, T=S:5m;R:5m;E:10m')
> >
> > i have adde this line just before
> > MAILER(smtp)dnl in sendmail.mc file
> >
> > when i run make command i get no error
> > but when i start the sendmail service i get following error
> >
> > Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1689:
> > Xmimedefang: local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
> > unsafe: Permission denied
> >
> > Please tell me why this permission error is generated and how to
> > resolve this problem.
>
> Google returns a number of relevant hits ;)
>
> The usual problem is one of:
>
> 1) You didn't start MIMEDefang
> 2) The permissions in the directory tree are incorrect
>
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