Re: SpamAssissan doesn't run after installation ?

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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