On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 18:07 +0300, Emin Akbulut wrote:
> I've stopped the mail server MTA during I was testing, so spamd
> has checked only one message at same time.
> It looks totaly random : )
>
>
> Is the only difference between spamassassin.exe & spamd.exe
> their very own User_Prefs config files?
>
No.
spamassassin processes one message and quits - its meant to be used in a
script or a procmail recipe.
spamd is a server that processes many messages sent to it by spamc
during its lifetime. Spamc does the following for every message:
receives a message to scan via stdin
opens a connection to spamd
sends the message to spamd
receives the annotated message back from spamd
closes the connection
writes the annotated message to stdout
IOW, if you develop a script or pipeline using spamasassin you can
replace it with spamc and the script will work just as before but faster
(assuming you've started spamd!)
Martin
