[TriLUG] SpamAssassin as a daemon

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Rick DeNatale wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:44 -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
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>>So, the developers invented the spamc/spamd combination.  In order to
>>reduce the processing time for each message, much of the spamassassin
>>code is kept loaded in memory at all times, through the spamd binary. 
>>Then, the spamc binary is the "client" used to connect to spamd.  But
>>this isn't a daemon like httpd or ftp that provides services to other
>>computers on your network, it's simply an internal thing that makes
>>spamassassin run better. 
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>Well, actually spamd is a daemon pretty much like httpd or xinetd. It
>listens for requests via a socket, by default on port 783. Out of the
>box it only allows requests from localhost, but it's perfectly happy to
>serve spamc either on your computer or another, as long as you tell it
>to allow access from those ip addresses using the option -allowed-ips.
>The default for spamc is to connect to spamd on localhost, but by using
>the -d option you can point it to spamd running somewhere else.
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How do Joseph or your wife (Jason) feel about being sponsors?  I'd feel 
more comfortable with it being a steering committee member, or at least 
a long standing member, who is the sponsor.

Others thoughts?

Aaron J.