On 2022-05-05 at 07:52:58 UTC-0400 (Thu, 5 May 2022 12:52:58 +0100) Anthony Griffiths via MIMEDefang <[email protected]> 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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