thankyou I found mimdefang.service and mimdefang.mulitplextor.service in the install files and I was able to get md started
On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 3:49 PM Bill Cole via MIMEDefang <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.) > > > -- > Bill Cole > [email protected] or [email protected] > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire > > _______________________________________________ > NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above > message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. > > MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.mimedefang.org/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang_lists.mimedefang.org _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mimedefang.org/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang_lists.mimedefang.org
