[TriLUG] SpamAssassin as a daemon

[Rick DeNatale]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:00 -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>   This is probably something I should just google, but I'm at work so I need
> to look busier than "surfing the web"..  (You know...doesn't matter what
> you're looking at; if you're not typing, you don't look busy...)  So I
> figured if anyone felt like pointing me to a howto, or explaining in brief,
> I'd ask how to take advantage of the daemon portion of SpamAssassin.  So far
> in my experience with spamassassin, I've used it as part of a procmail
> filter recipe (which doesn't seem to make use of spamd to me).  

Invoke spamc (the spamd client) in your procmail recipe.

> What does
> the daemon give me, and why is it better (or simply is it better) than the
> procmail filter method? 

Presumably better performance, no start-up overhead for each message.
Also the ability to move the spamassassin processing to another server,
it even provides for failover switching.

>
>  Further, if I want to have a non-sa-processed copy
> of all mail messages, does that preclude using spamd?

I don't beleive so.

Assuming that you've already got spamassassin installed try:
$man spamc
$man spamd

And you'll be typing into a shell instead of a web browser!

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