On 4/26/2026 4:17 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2026-04-25 at 20:34:28 UTC-0400 (Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:34:28 -0400)
FalconChristopher <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
I hope someone can help. I installed SpamAssissan using cpan. And
although everything installed correctly, and I checked where
SpamAssissan is installed. I'm unable to get it to run. I locate the
executable files but when I run, nothing happens ?
SpamAssassin is not one executable, it is a Perl module for
classifying mail as spam or 'ham' (i.e. non-spam) and can be used in
many different ways with mail servers and clients. You really need to
know how you want to use it for any of us to help you do that.
The most common use of SpamAssassin is integrated with a MTA
(Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, etc.) to filter mail as it arrives. That can
be done with a Milter program that loads the Mail::SpamAssassin module
tree (e.g. Amavis, MIMEDefang, MailMunge) and handles calling SA to do
the message analysis, or a Milter like spamass-milter that handles
communication with the 'spamd' daemon, which can run locally or
remotely. It is also possible to integrate SpamAssassin in a MTA's
delivery path, using tools like procmail, sieve, or Postfix's
"content_filter" parameter.
Installed from CPAN, SpamAssassin has none of the add-on integrations
that are often done by distribution package maintainers, so you need
to figure out what you want to use and how you want to use it. The
installation from CPAN does no OS-specific or system-specific setup.
See 'man spamassassin' for an overview of the documentation. If you
wish to use spamd, you will need to look at the various startup
scripts included in the spamd directory of the SA distribution to
figure out which one suits your OS and perhaps adapt it to your local
details.
I understand. Although when I run `spamd` I get this error without any
options.
spamd: could not create IO::Socket::IP socket on [::1]:783: Address
already in use
server socket setup failed, retry 9: spamd: could not create
IO::Socket::IP socket on [127.0.0.1]:783: Address already in use
Christopher
