Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
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.On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:44 -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
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.
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.
Others thoughts?
Aaron J.
Okay, so either Mozilla or I made quite an error. I don't know how it worked out this way, but clearly I also wasn't paying much attention either, while eating dinner and responding to email at the same time. :)
Please feel free to ignore the previous message if you're not on the steering committee. :)
While I'm responding to this email (inadvertantly) - I think what Jeremy was attempting to say it that Spamassassin isn't typicaly run as a stand-alone service. Unlike say, Apache, there's not much point in running SA on your machine by itself. Yes, it can be used as you described, and is quite well suited to high-traffic environments in that fashion. But it does differ from the other daemons mentioned in that it provides a function which is most commonly used as a supporting service, to other more "customer facing" services. I suppose to be more clear, spamc is different in that it's not intended to be connected to by "end users" in any direct fashion.
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