spamd

Hodglim · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 7 Location: UK

Hi,

I have just recently set up a spam filtering server running Gentoo, Postfix, Amavisd-new, clamav and SpamAssassin.

I have read several posts within these forums suggesting that it is advisable to run the spamd daemon to keep SpamAssassin in memory to increase performance.

Is this simply a case of ensuring that spamd is loaded at startup?

Spooky Ghost · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

It should work automagically if you invoke spamc from the scanning script. If you call spamassassin instead just change this reference. IIRC I had to do this when setting up it up with qmail.

Depending on your circumstances you may want to make spamd run as a non root user; Gentoo doesn't do this by default. Create a spamd user/group and then modify SPAMD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/spamd to include -u spamd.