Re: spamassassin

[Ollie Acheson <oacheson@acheson.org>]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello.  I installed sylpheed-claws-spamassassin, and read what I could 
> find on it, and on spamassassin, on my computer.  Alas, Sylpheed-claws 
> is not picking up any of the spam. 
> 
> 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
> debian:/home/mark#
> 

Under debian, /etc/default/spamassassin sets the ENABLE variable to
"0" which disables it. This leads to the message you quoted above. The
idea is that you don't want the daemon starting up until you take the
time to read the docs and set the configuration files appropriately.
Once that is done, you change to ENABLE='1'. 

/etc/init.d/spamassassin start should then work.

The configuration files are discussed in /usr/share/doc/spamassassin
as well as in the on-line documentation.

Ollie


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