installation of sendmail milters, security questions

Grigory Klyuchnikov grn at ispras.ru
Mon Oct 18 08:41:23 PDT 2004


Gary Aitken wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Searches on freebsd.org, google and sendmail.org didn't really resolve
> this to my satisfaction; probably my lack of brain cells...
>
> Trying to install milter-greylist.
> After configuring sendmail, and without the milter-greylist daemon
> running, maillog contains messages of the type:
>
> sm-mta[59533]: i9H12H4P059533: Milter (greylist): local socket name 
> /var/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock unsafe
>
> From what I've been able to dig up, this is because sendmail thinks
> it's unsafe to read/write that socket.
> Since milter-greylist was not actually running when I did this,
> (I hadn't started it manually or configured a script to auto start it)
> I assumed it had something to do with directory prermissions /
> ownership.
>
> Upon checking, I discovered /var/milter-greylist was owned by smmsp,
> so I changed it to root.  Unfortunately, that didn't solve the
> problem.
>
> I'm at a loss to understand what else is causing sendmail to think
> that socket is unsafe.  Can someone hand me a clue?

May be http://www.milter.org/ can help you

Best regards,
Grigory Klyuchnikov

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