[Pymilter] annoying errors and explanations
Eric S. Johansson
esj at harvee.org
Thu Apr 15 08:53:08 EDT 2004
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> started testing and the milter process starts up fine and runs fine.
> But, sendmail tells me:
>
> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1644: Xmilter:
> local socket name /tmp/camram/pythonsock unsafe: World writable directory
...
>
> in the end, sendmail is still sick about something masquerading as a
> world writable directory.
it was complaining about /tmp.
so, the real lesson is: don't use /tmp for transient fifos like
everybody else if you are using sendmail. Not sure where I'm going to
put them for real but for now /var/camram works.
---eric
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