On Friday 16 January 2004 09:29 pm, Chris wrote: > Brian, question on running spamassassin. There are two files to run spamc > and spamd. Should they both be running together? I have spamc set to > start at boot and its running, spamd I find has to be started from a root > terminal. I figured I'd better do something about this overwhelimg inflow > of spam since earthlink doesn't seem to be.
spamd is the server process that runs at boot and listens for connections that it checks against the filters. Spamc is the client piece of SA that you send mail to, it then connects to spamd and gets the mail filtered. Spamc does not need to be started at all, you direct mail to it with procmail. My procmail file has a line | /usr/bin/spamc -f This lines tells procmail to pipe the mail message to the spamc client which interacts with the spamd process and then returns the message after the recipes have been applied and new headers have been added. If you are running Mandrake, I would advise you to install the Mandrake RPM's of spamassassin and then you can manually upgrade SA by downloading the newest version and either building it or you can install it using CPAN. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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