[Mimedefang] getting started

[Bill Cole]

On 2022-05-05 at 07:52:58 UTC-0400 (Thu, 5 May 2022 12:52:58 +0100)
Anthony Griffiths via MIMEDefang <mimedefang at lists.mimedefang.org>
is rumored to have said:

> I've just installed  mimedefang-2.86 on centos 7 but its not working
> and I'm not sure what I need to do to get it up and running. I used to
> have md running on centos 6 but that was ages ago.
> I don't know how to verify if md is running or whether it is invoked
> by sendmail, I can't find any init script to start it up. I installed
> md from source (mimedefang-2.86.tar.gz)
> in sendmail.mc I have :
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang',
> `S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, T=S:5m;R:5m')
> I also tried
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang',
> `S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, T=S:1m;R:1m')
> but in /var/log/maillog I get:
> sendmail[4681]: <snip> Milter (mimedefang): local socket name
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
> sendmail[4681]:<snip> Milter (mimedefang): to error state
> I've been trawling google on this, page after page but couldn't find
> anything to dig myself out of this hole.

Make sure that every level of the path 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock is readable by the user running 
mimedefang (typically 'defang') and is not world-writable, and that 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/ is owned and writable by the user running 
mimedefang with no group or world permissions.

> do I need to start md up myself?

It depends on how you did the installation.

> if so what is the command?

There is a systemd service file in the distribution, and a normal 
installation should install it, so you can use the standard systemctl 
commands to start, stop and enable it for automatic start at boot time.

> id there
> an available init script to create a 'mimedefang.service'? or is md
> invoked automatically by sendmail? thanks for any help.

MIMEDefang runs as a core Milter daemon, a multiplexing agent, and a 
collection of child Perl processes that handle the details of your 
filtering. The distribution includes both traditional EL-style init 
scripts in the 'redhat' subdirectory and SystemD service files in the 
'systemd-units' subdirectory. A normal installation will put those where 
they need to be to allow you to enable and manage those with 
chkconfig/service (EL6 and older) or systemctl (EL7 and newer.)


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