Re: spamassassin
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> I tried starting spamassassin, but get this message:
>
> debian:/home/mark# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
> SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin
> debian:/home/mark# locate /etc/default/spamassassin
Why are you using locate when you have the full path? What does
ls /etc/default/spamassassin
have to say?
Also, you are aware that `/etc/init.d/spamassassin start` starts the
spamd daemon, but you can also run /usr/bin/spamassassin on demand
without needing the daemon at all, right? From your description of your
overall setup (no public SMTP service, just collecting messages
periodically from a POP3 mailbox), you're probably better off not using
the daemon since there are security risks inherent in using it (see
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.spamd.gz for discussion of them) and
you aren't likely to need the performance benefits or concurrent message
handling abilities that it provides.
Note that, although I've run spamassassin for several years, I have
never done anything with sylpheed-claws. But your use of it seems
unlikely to affect any of what I've said about spamassassin.
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than those attending too small degree of it.
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