Just to clarify some things:
Jerry M wrote: > > I'm really surprised that there is so little info or support for > installing spamd a service. > The reason, it is not mentioned in the official SpamAssassin docs or Wiki is because SpamD is not supported for Windows. There are projects like SaWin32 (unfortunately discontinued) and the one I am developing (SpamAssassin for Windows) but you'll always have to consider that they are some kind of Windows port and therefore may not behave like a SpamAssassin you installed on a unix box. Jerry M wrote: > > I run apache http, tomcat, and james, and they all simply install as a > service automatically or just give me a command to run to do it. If > that's still on the SA todo list, then I understand. > It is not on the SpamAssassin todo list and it will never be because the SpamAssassin project "just" provides the sources to compile this great spamfilter yourself. For most unix users this is not a big deal, however for Windows you will have to consider some additional issues, most of this is mentioned in my HowTo on the JAM Software website. However, compiling SpamAssassin yourself will not provide you with the usual Windows [exe]cutable files, it will create a batch file that serves as a wrapper for the actual Perl scripts, SpamAssassin is contained in. As the official SpamAssassin project does not provide binary builds, you may understand, that they do not provide Windows setup files either. JAM provides a binary build of SpamAssassin as we use it in some of our commercial applications. As we owe something to the developers and the community, we provide the binary build free of charge and published a HowTo to create it yourself. However, we will not provide it as a preconfigured, easy-to-use Windows service, as this would make parts of our products kind of obsolete. Just to mention it: I'm looking forward to release a new build of our port within the next weeks (lost some time finishing my bachelor thesis ;)). There have been made improvements regarding SpamD stability, also Razor will now be able to work properly. Best regards, Daniel Lemke -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Installing-spamd-as-a-Windows-service-tp29464763p29468978.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
