On 2026-04-26 at 18:27:21 UTC-0400 (Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:27:21 +0000)
Michael Grant via users <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
spamd does not do the actual scanning, it's just something that feeds
messages to the thing that does: spamassassin.
No, spamd is a Perl script which loads the Mail::SpamAssassin module
tree and calls the scanning functions directly to classify messages. It
runs as a daemon (spawning children as needed) and receives messages
over a socket using a simple protocol, usually on TCP port 783, which
requires root privileges to bind. The spamd daemon does not call the
spamassassin script, which is intended for interactive command-line use.
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