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Re: postfix: milter socket: permission denied

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2007 - 09:28:40 CDT


rosenfieldusers.sourceforge.net:
> Doing an strace revealed that the permission denied error message from
> Postfix was completely bogus, in fact it communicated fine through the
> socket.

The warning:

    warning: connect to Milter service
    unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock: Permission denied

was reported BEFORE the socket was opened.

No communication is possible without an open socket.

        Wietse