I cannot express strongly enough how *IRRESPONSIBLY LAZY* that advice
is.
LLMs cannot tell you facts about SpamAssassin or anything else. They can
only put words together in an order that seems likely to be factual.
They have very likely read everything ever said about Spamassassin in
public, including things that are entirely wrong and formerly true
things that are false today. It has no concept of there being a
difference.
There is no such thing as artificial intelligence and there may never
be. Anyone who tells you it is the inevitable super-tool of the future
should be interrogated about how they thought about NFT's back when they
were supposed to be the future of art.
SpamAssassin has substantial built-in documentation (POD accessible with
perldoc) and an extensive wiki. Every executable has (or at least SHOULD
have...) a man page (although many are just POD conversions.) If users
have coherent questions, asking them here is helpful because it will be
seen and likely answered by people who ACTUALLY KNOW THINGS.
Of course, the immediate problem in this case is a vague question. The
key to getting a solid answer anywhere is asking a solid question. Even
the most hallucinatory LLM can answer a vague question coherently.
On 2026-04-26 at 16:28:14 UTC-0400 (Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:28:14 +0000)
Marc <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
AI is perfect for teaching well documented and static, basic
information. You can literally tell it what you are doing and it will
help you fix the config. Give it a try. These are free and without
registration.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/
https://chatgpt.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: FalconChristopher <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2026 14:38
To: [email protected]; Marc <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: SpamAssissan doesn't run after installation ?
On 4/26/2026 6:30 AM, Marc wrote:
Just run it from packages in alpine or so, and run spamd.
-----Original Message-----
From: FalconChristopher <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2026 02:34
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: SpamAssissan doesn't run after installation ?
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 ?
Christopher
I found the location of `spamd`; I wasn't aware that I had to run
`spamd` over `spamassissan`. Although when running `spamd` which
exists
in two paths, I get this error;
spamd: could not create IO::Socket::IP socket on [::1]:783:
Permission denied server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could
not
create IO::Socket::IP socket on [1xx.0.0.1]:783: Permission denied
Christopher
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