Re: Question about dspam/dspamc

On 06.12.2014 05:14, Eric Broch wrote:
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> Raphaël,
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> I think 'dspamc' and 'dspam --client' are the same thing.
> I don't think one uses dspamc with the --client option. Someone with 
> more experience can correct me if I'm wrong.
> I would not use dspamc as there is a dot-stuffing problem with it 
> which truncates email.
>
What dot-stuffig issue are you talking about?



> Eric
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> On 12/5/2014 6:32 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use DSPAM in server mode for some years now and relied on LMTP between
> > Postfix/DSPAM/Cyrus to communicate with each other, so I didn't really
> > look into the different modes of operation of the dspam binary itself;
> > but recently it occurred to me that I was calling dspam in
> > self-contained mode for retraining, whereas I could just call it as a
> > thin client which would communicate with the already-running server
> > instance.
> >
> > So I have a question about the difference between dspam and dspamc
> > because the README isn't quite clear on this: it gives two contradicting
> > affirmations.
> >
> > Between lines 1771 and 1784 we have:
> >
> >>   The DSPAM agent can then be called the same as if you were running in
> >>   standard (non-client/server) mode and adding --client to the set of
> >>   parameters. Running dspam without --client specified will cause 
> DSPAM to
> >>   revert to its normal non-daemon behavior and establish database 
> connections
> >>   on its own. The client settings will be loaded from dspam.conf, 
> and the
> >>   agent will act as a thin client instead. For example:
> >>
> >>         dspam --client --user dick jane --deliver=innocent -d %u
> >>
> >>   Alternatively, if you'd like to use a thinner client, dspamc is 
> identical
> >>   to the dspam binary in behavior, but has been stripped down to 
> only include
> >>   the lightweight client.
> >>
> >>         dspamc --user dick jane --deliver=innocent -d %u
> >
> > ...which seems to imply that "dspamc" is equivalent to "dspam --client".
> >
> > But later, between lines 1892 and 1895, we can read:
> >
> >>   "dspam" mode notes.
> >>   In dspam mode, only the dspam client will be connecting to your 
> LMTP server.
> >>   This can be dspamc (a thin-client) or the dspam binary. In either 
> case,
> >>   you'll need to specify --client to tell DSPAM to act as a client. 
> DLMTP
> >
> > ...which says that dspamc still needs the "--client" option.
> >
> > The logic would dictate that the first affirmation is true, and the
> > second one is false; if that's the case, then the README should be
> > fixed, as well as dspamc man page (if it can work only as a thin client,
> > the man page shouldn't mention the --server option, and stress out that
> > the --client option is useless).
> >
> > To be clear, in main.cf (Postfix), I had:
> >
> >> dspam-retrain   unix    -       n       n       - 10      pipe
> >>   flags=Ru user=dspam argv=/usr/bin/dspam --user ${sender} 
> --class=${nexthop} --source=error
> >
> > If I replace /usr/bin/dspam with /usr/bin/dspamc, do I have to use the
> > --client option ? I don't think so, but could someone familiar with the
> > source code confirm ?
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> >
> >
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