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To reproduce:
 - Install postfix
 - Install libmilter
 - Install mimedefang
 - Hook up mimedefang in the postfix config

The mimedefang milter fails, causing all email delivery to come to a halt.  The
error reported in syslog is "Permission denied", although that is not the
problem - strace reveals that postfix does not communicate properly with
mimedefang, it expects mimedefang to say something that it doesn't.

To fix:
 - Unmerge mimedefang which is at version 2.57
 - Download mimedefang 2.63 from official website
 - ./configure --bindir=/usr/bin + make + make install

If you have an empty /usr/local/bin (as my Gentoo does), mimedefang will get
much farther than before, but will now fail because it finds the /usr/local/bin
and just assumes that mimedefang.pl is placed there. The error shown in syslog
is "SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY". To keep your slaves alive and breathing, just
symlink /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl to /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl, and...

Voila! everything works like a charm.

Wanted:
* ebuild upgraded to 2.63, since upstream fixed whatever bug is preventing this
from working OOTB.
* upstream fixed to look for /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl instead of
/usr/local/bin.  alternatively, a gentoo patch on top which does this..


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see above.

Actual Results:  
see above.


Expected Results:  
see above.


see above.

Running ./configure with --prefix=/usr causes the files to be installed in the
right place, but `strings /usr/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor` reveals that it
still looks in /usr/local/bin for the mimedefang.pl exectuable. Annoying..
Anyway.

Created an attachment (id=137970) [details]
mimedefang ebuild diff for version 2.63

version bump mimedefang to 2.63 and postfix compatibility.
Just proposing this ebuild wich compiles fine but did not test hooking it up
with postfix content filtering.

Created an attachment (id=137997) [details]
mimedefang ebuild diff for version 2.63

Created an attachment (id=138176) [details]
mimedefang-2.63.ebuild.diff

sorry for the mistakes

Fixed in version 2.64, but using blocking dependency atoms.