Postfix and DSPAM - var/run/dspam/dspam.sock - No such file or directory

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• Postfix

OS : Debian Etch Postfix : 2.3.8 Dspam : 3.6.8

I was following the official dspam documentation (http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/text/README-3.6.7.txt) to set up Postfix and DSPAM.

I had this under** /etc/postfix/master.rc** :

<code>smtp      inet  n       -       n       -       -        smtpd -v
        -o content_filter=lmtp:unix:/var/run/dspam/dspam.sock

localhost:10026 inet  n -       n       -       -        smtpd
        -o content_filter=
        -o receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_checks,no_header_body_checks
        -o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
        -o smtpd_client_restrictions=
        -o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
        -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
        -o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8
        -o smtpd_authorized_xforward_hosts=127.0.0.0/8</code>

But Postfix would not connect to dspam socket, the logs were returning :

Aug 22 14:58:23 vm-debian4 postfix/lmtp[24981]: 0FE1F43F7E: to=user at domain.lan, relay=none, delay=0.12, delays=0.08/0.04/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mx.domain.lan[/var/run/dspam/dspam.sock]: No such file or directory)

Usually, such a problem can occur if you’re running postfix as chrooted, you then need to put the sock file under the chroot (usually /var/spool/postfix/…). It can also occur if the permissions to the socket file are not set properly. The default Debian install of Postfix doesn’t run as chrooted. You can usually tell if a process is chrooted in master.rc :

This instance would run chrooted : smtp inet n - y - - smtpd

While this one wouldn’t : smtp inet n - n - - smtpd

As you can notice, the 3rd dash specifies if the process will run chrooted or not…

The fix !!

By default, master.rc had this : lmtp unix - - - - - lmtp

It isn’t explicitely declared that lmtp should run “not-chrooted”

Changing to : lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp

… fixed the issue ! ltmp is now explicitedly not chrooted and postfix and dspam now work together.

Thanks to the guys on #postfix (irc.freenode.net) !