I knew what you mentioned, I mean do they use same "engine", "algorithm", you name it... I think that If both use same Perl code then the only remaining diffrence is User_Prefs like things...
BTW, I want to thank you all who spent time and answered us here, passionately : ) I felt I'm not alone here and live with same addiction to both solve own & other's problems. Thank you people!!! On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org>wrote: > 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 > > >
