On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:06 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > <posted & mailed> > > Craig White wrote: > > >> spamassassin seems to have stopped performing on my desktop. > >> I am getting the following 2-line message in /var/log/maillog : > >> =============================================================== > >> Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341: > >> Milter (spamassassin): > >> local socket name /var/run/spamass.sock unsafe > >> Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341: > >> Milter (spamassassin): > >> to error state > >> =============================================================== > ... > >> I'm running Fedora-4, with spamassassin-3.0.4-1.fc4 > >> and spamass-milter-0.3.0-8.fc4 , > >> > >> Any and all suggestions gratefully received. > > ---- > > service spamass-milter restart > > Thanks for the response, and for the suggestion. > > I had tried this before, but I tried it again. > (I also restarted spamassassin and sendmail.) > However, I am still getting the message above repeatedly > in /var/log/maillog . > It is repeated every 10 minutes, which is the period > at which I collect email, > admittedly by the rather odd method of uucp (uucico), > but I don't think that should be a problem. > > The message comes from sendmail, > and seems to suggest that sendmail does not like to open a socket > with local name /var/run/spamass.sock . > > What does it mean to say that this is "unsafe"? > > I notice that spamass-milter seems to have no problem > with /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock . > > If anyone can throw enlightenment on this, > I shall be very grateful. ---- just an idle thought on the above - it doesn't seem to me to be a good idea to run a milter on mail that in essence has already been accepted (uucp) - perhaps I am a little slow on the uptake but I thought that milters were for rejecting mail at the smtp level that aren't suitable to be received. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
