> mail:/etc/mail/spamassassin# spamd start You don't normally start spamd like that, but
/etc/init.d/spamassassin start This may vary on the linux/unix distribution you use, but something like that anyway. Anyway, according what you posted it seems that SpamAssassin spamd was already running when you did that "spamd start". It could not bind to the net interface, because "something" was already bint to it. Propably SpamAssassin itself. What does "/etc/init.d/spamassassin restart" say?