Hi,
I had the same problem where an update from spamass-milter seemd to
cause spamassassin milter stop working and give the same error messages
in /var/log/maillog:
Milter (spamassassin): local socket name
/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass.sock unsafe
Milter (spamassassin): to error state
I had the same setup as Joey Davis below. Here's what I did.
I changed the line in sendmail.mc where I specify the milter sock
location from /var/run/spamass.sock to
/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock (Backup the old one first).
I ran 'make' and restarted the milter, spamassassin and sendmail.
Now, the .sock gets created and sendmail can talk to it and communicate
with the milter. I do get another message now in /maillog but the
spamassin-milter seems to be working fine. This seemed to fix the
problem. I am not guaranteeing that is the best solution
The problem seemed to arise from the fact that the update changed the
milter to run as user sa-milt as opposed to root and so changed the
location of the .sock file from root writable /var/run to sa-milt
writable /var/run/spamass-milter. It also changed the name of the sock
from spamass.sock to spamass-milter.sock
Regards,
Arjun
maillist wrote:
Joey Davis wrote:
Greetings ...
I can not get spamassassin to work. I have seen this problem in some
newgroups but no definitive solution. Here is the information
OS Version: FC5
Sendmail: 8.13.7
Spamassassin: 3.1.3
Log entries:
Mar 19 17:28:32 obwat sendmail[29903]: l2JMSW21029903: Milter
(spamassassin): local socket name
/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass.sock unsafe
Mar 19 17:28:32 obwat sendmail[29903]: l2JMSW21029903: Milter
(spamassassin): to error state
Mar 19 17:28:32 obwat sendmail[29903]: l2JMSW21029903: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands
Thanks for any help,
Joey
I'm not sure, and please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
think that the spamass milter works. I've never seen/heard about it
working, but have heard many people expressing difficulties with it.
Luckily a friend of mine suggested to me to use mimedefang
(http://www.mimedefang.org/). It works wonderfully with sendmail, and
acts as a medium for spamassassin, a few antivirus scanners, and other
things that you may wish. You need only tell sendmail where the .sock
is for mimedefang, and mimedefang handles the rest.
Good luck
-=Aubrey=-
