[Mimedefang] Problem with permissions

Alan Premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Tue Sep 9 21:15:58 EDT 2008


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on 9/10/08 7:04 AM Bill Maidment said the following:

> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1804: Xmimedefang: local socket
> name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe: Permission denied
>                                                            [FAILED]
...snip...
> 
> drwx------  2 defang defang  140 2008-09-10 07:50 MIMEDefang
> 
Bill,

 Since it's very likely that sendmail is not being run as the defang
user, it doesn't have read permissions to /var/spool/MIMEDefang.
Therefore, you need to set the permissions to 755.

Alan
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