[Mimedefang] Problem with permissions

Kelson Vibber kelson at speed.net
Wed Sep 10 02:16:58 EDT 2008


On Sep 9, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Bill Maidment wrote:
>
> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1804:  
> Xmimedefang: local socket
> name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe: Permission denied

I think I remember seeing this where /var or /spool or something up  
the chain from the actual socket is group- or world- writable.   
Sendmail likes to complain if it thinks your environment is too  
vulnerable.



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