I'm trying to be a good netizen and set up spam filtering (prior to forwarding traffic). I'm having trouble configuring postgrey for this purpose. I thought I followed all the directions, but there appears to be a step missing.
Anyway, the system is pretty simple: a single machine, with a few aliases whose mail is forwarded to my ISP (which is where I prefer to read everything). The ISP is unwilling to deal with the spam this would cause in the absence of filtering. I decided to use a UNIX socket, since I understand that that is generally more efficient for intra-machine use. When i configured postgrey and postfix, (re)started both and looked at the log file, I see every message gets warning: connect to private/postgrey: No such file or directory This is from /etc/conf.d/postgrey POSTGREY_TYPE="unix" POSTGREY_SOCKET="/var/spool/postfix/private/postgrey" This from /etc/postfix/main.cfsmtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination check_policy_service unix:private/postgrey I'm just guessing: should I create a unix-domain socket in /var/spool/postfix/private/postgrey? Or should starting postgrey take care of that? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list