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SPAMD(1)
NAME
spamd - daemonized version of spamassassin
SYNOPSIS
spamd [options]
Options:
-c, --create-prefs Create user preferences files
-C path, --configpath=path Path for default config files
--siteconfigpath=path Path for site configs
-d, --daemonize Daemonize
-h, --help Print usage message.
-i [ipaddr], --listen-ip=ipaddr Listen on the IP ipaddr
-p port, --port Listen on specified port
-m num, --max-children=num Allow maximum num children
--max-conn-per-child=num Maximum connections accepted by child
before it is respawned
-q, --sql-config Enable SQL config (only useful with -x)
-Q, --setuid-with-sql Enable SQL config (only useful with -x,
enables use of -H)
--ldap-config Enable LDAP config (only useful with -x)
--setuid-with-ldap Enable LDAP config (only useful with -x,
enables use of -H)
--virtual-config-dir=dir Enable pattern based Virtual configs
(needs -x)
-r pidfile, --pidfile Write the process id to pidfile
-s facility, --syslog=facility Specify the syslog facility
--syslog-socket=type How to connect to syslogd
-u username, --username=username Run as username
-v, --vpopmail Enable vpopmail config
-x, --nouser-config Disable user config files
--auth-ident Use ident to authenticate spamc user
--ident-timeout=timeout Timeout for ident connections
-A host,..., --allowed-ips=..,.. Limit ip addresses which can connect
-D, --debug Print debugging messages
-L, --local Use local tests only (no DNS)
-P, --paranoid Die upon user errors
-H [dir], --helper-home-dir[=dir] Specify a different HOME directory
--ssl Run an SSL server
--server-key keyfile Specify an SSL keyfile
--server-cert certfile Specify an SSL certificate
--socketpath=path Listen on given UNIX domain socket
--socketowner=name Set UNIX domain socket file's owner
--socketgroup=name Set UNIX domain socket file's group
--socketmode=mode Set UNIX domain socket file's mode
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this program is to provide a daemonized version of the
spamassassin executable. The goal is improving throughput performance for
automated mail checking.
This is intended to be used alongside "spamc", a fast, low-overhead C
client program.
See the README file in the "spamd" directory of the SpamAssassin
distribution for more details.
Note: Although "spamd" will check per-user config files for every message,
any changes to the system-wide config files will require either restarting
spamd or forcing it to reload itself via SIGHUP for the changes to take
effect.
Note: If "spamd" receives a SIGHUP, it internally reloads itself, which
means that it will change its pid and might not restart at all if its
environment changed (ie. if it can't change back into its own directory).
If you plan to use SIGHUP, you should always start "spamd" with the -r
switch to know its current pid.
OPTIONS
Options of the long form can be shortened as long as they remain
unambiguous. (i.e. --dae can be used instead of --daemonize) Also, boolean
options (like --user-config) can be negated by adding no (--nouser-config),
however, this is usually unnecessary.
-c, --create-prefs
Create user preferences files if they don't exist (default: don't).
-C path, --configpath=path
Use the specified path for locating the distributed configuration
files. Ignore the default directories (usually
"/usr/share/spamassassin" or similar).
--siteconfigpath=path
Use the specified path for locating site-specific configuration files.
Ignore the default directories (usually "/etc/mail/spamassassin" or
similar).
-d, --daemonize
Detach from starting process and run in background (daemonize).
-h, --help
Print a brief help message, then exit without further action.
-i [ipaddress], --listen-ip[=ipaddress], --ip-address[=ipaddress]
Tells spamd to listen on the specified IP address (defaults to
127.0.0.1). If you specify no IP address after the switch, spamd will
listen on all interfaces. (This is equal to the address 0.0.0.0). You
can also use a valid hostname which will make spamd listen on the first
address that name resolves to.
-p port, --port=port
Optionally specifies the port number for the server to listen on
(default: 783).
Note: If spamd is set to run as a non-root user (-u), and is to run on
a privileged port (any < 1024), the parent will not be able to be sent
a SIGHUP to reload the configuration.
-q, --sql-config
Turn on SQL lookups even when per-user config files have been disabled
with -x. this is useful for spamd hosts which don't have user's home
directories but do want to load user preferences from an SQL database.
If your spamc client does not support sending the "User:" header, like
"exiscan", then the SQL username used will always be nobody.
--ldap-config
Turn on LDAP lookups. This is completely analog to "--sql-config", only
it is using an LDAP server.
-Q, --setuid-with-sql
Turn on SQL lookups even when per-user config files have been disabled
with -x and also setuid to the user. This is useful for spamd hosts
which want to load user preferences from an SQL database but also wish
to support the use of the auto-whitelist and -H (Helper home
directories.)
--setuid-with-ldap
Turn on LDAP lookups even when per-user config files have been disabled
with -x and also setuid to the user. This is again completely analog
to "--setuid-with-sql", only it is using an LDAP server.
--virtual-config-dir=pattern
This option specifies where per-user preferences can be found for
virtual users, for the -x switch. The pattern is used as a base pattern
for the directory name. Any of the following escapes can be used:
%u --
replaced with the full name of the current user, as sent by spamc.
words, if the username is an email address, this is the part before the
"@" sign.
%l -- replaced with the 'local part' of the current username. In other
words, if the username is an email address, this is the part after the
"@" sign.
%d -- replaced with the 'domain' of the current username. In other
%% -- replaced with a single percent sign (%).
So for example, if "/vhome/users/%u/spamassassin" is specified, and
spamc sends a virtual username of "jm@example.com", the directory
"/vhome/users/jm@example.com/spamassassin" will be used.
The set of characters allowed in the virtual username for this path are
restricted to:
A-Z a-z 0-9 - + _ . , @ =
All others will be replaced by underscores ("_").
This path must be a writable directory. It will be created if it does
not already exist. If a file called user_prefs exists in this
directory (note: not in a ".spamassassin" subdirectory!), it will be
loaded as the user's preferences. The auto-whitelist and/or Bayes
databases for that user will be stored in this directory.
Note that this requires that -x is used, and cannot be combined with
SQL- or LDAP-based configuration.
The pattern must expand to an absolute directory when spamd is running
daemonized (-d).
-r pidfile, --pidfile=pidfile
Write the process ID of the spamd parent to the file specified by
pidfile. The file will be unlinked when the parent exits. Note that
when running with the -u option, the file must be writable by that
user.
-v, --vpopmail
Enable vpopmail config. If specified with with -u set to the vpopmail
user, this allows spamd to lookup/create user_prefs in the vpopmail
user's own maildir. This option is useful for vpopmail virtual users
who do not have an entry in the system /etc/passwd file.
Currently, use of this without -u is not supported.
-s facility, --syslog=facility
Specify the syslog facility to use (default: mail). If "stderr" is
specified, output will be written to stderr. (This is useful if you're
running "spamd" under the "daemontools" package.) With a facility of
"file", all output goes to spamd.log. facility is interpreted as a file
name to log to if it contains any characters except a-z and 0-9. "null"
disables logging completely (used internally).
Examples: spamd -s mail # use syslog, facility
mail (default) spamd -s ./mail # log to file
./mail spamd -s stderr 2>/dev/null # log to stderr, throw
messages away spamd -s null # the same as above
spamd -s file # log to file ./spamd.log
spamd -s /var/log/spamd.log # log to file /var/log/spamd.log
If logging to a file is enabled and that log file is rotated, the spamd
server must be restarted with a SIGHUP. (If the log file is just
truncated, this is not needed but still recommended.)
--syslog-socket=type
Specify how spamd should send messages to syslogd. The options are
"unix", "inet" or "none". The default is to try "unix" first, falling
back to "inet" if perl detects errors in its "unix" support.
Some platforms, or versions of perl, are shipped with dysfunctional
versions of the Sys::Syslog package which do not support some socket
types, so you may need to set this. If you get error messages
regarding __PATH_LOG or similar from spamd, try changing this setting.
The socket type "file" is used internally and should not be specified.
-u username, --username=username
Run as the named user. If this option is not set, the default
behaviour is to setuid() to the user running "spamc", if "spamd" is
running as root.
Note: "--username=root" is not a valid option. If specified, "spamd"
will exit with a fatal error on startup.
Note: If this option is set to a non-root user, and spamd is to run on
a privileged port (any < 1024, default 783 or via -p), the parent will
not be able to be sent a SIGHUP to reload the configuration.
-x, --nouser-config, --user-config
Turn off(on) reading of per-user configuration files (user_prefs) from
the user's home directory. The default behaviour is to read per-user
configuration from the user's home directory.
This option does not disable or otherwise influence the SQL, LDAP or
Virtual Config Dir settings.
--auth-ident
Verify the username provided by spamc using ident. This is only useful
if connections are only allowed from trusted hosts (because an identd
that lies is trivial to create) and if spamc REALLY SHOULD be running
as the user it represents. Connections are terminated immediately if
authentication fails. In this case, spamc will pass the mail through
unchecked. Failure to connect to an ident server, and response
timeouts are considered authentication failures. This requires that
Net::Ident be installed.
--ident-timeout=timeout
Wait at most timeout seconds for a response to ident queries.
Authentication that takes long that timeout seconds will fail, and mail
will not be processed. Setting this to 0.0 or less results in no
timeout, which is STRONGLY discouraged. The default is 5 seconds.
-A host,..., --allowed-ips=host,...
Specify a list of authorized hosts or networks which can connect to
this spamd instance. Single IP addresses can be given, ranges of IP
addresses in address/masklength CIDR format, or ranges of IP addresses
by listing 3 or less octets with a trailing dot. Hostnames are not
supported, only IP addresses. This option can be specified multiple
times, or can take a list of addresses separated by commas. Examples:
-A 10.11.12.13 -- only allow connections from 10.11.12.13.
-A 10.11.12.13,10.11.12.14 -- only allow connections from 10.11.12.13
and 10.11.12.14.
-A 10.200.300.0/24 -- allow connections from any machine in the range
"10.200.300.*".
-A 10. -- allow connections from any machine in the range "10.*.*.*".
By default, connections are only accepted from localhost [127.0.0.1].
-D, --debug
Print debugging messages
-L, --local
Perform only local tests on all mail. In other words, skip DNS and
other network tests. Works the same as the "-L" flag to
spamassassin(1).
-P, --paranoid
Die on user errors (for the user passed from spamc) instead of falling
back to user nobody and using the default configuration.
-m number , --max-children=number
This option specifies the maximum number of children to spawn. Spamd
will spawn that number of children, then sleep in the background until
a child dies, wherein it will go and spawn a new child.
Incoming connections can still occur if all of the children are busy,
however those connections will be queued waiting for a free child. The
minimum value is 1, the default value is 5.
Please note that there is a OS specific maximum of connections that can
be queued (Try "perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN'" to find this
maximum).
--max-conn-per-child=number
This option specifies the maximum number of connections each child
should process before dying and letting the master spamd process spawn
a new child. The minimum value is 1, the default value is 200.
-H directory, --helper-home-dir=directory
Specify that external programs such as Razor, DCC, and Pyzor should
have a HOME environment variable set to a specific directory. The
default is to use the HOME environment variable setting from the shell
running spamd. By specifying no argument, spamd will use the spamc
caller's home directory instead.
--ssl
Accept only SSL connections. The IO::Socket::SSL perl module must be
installed.
--server-key keyfile
Specify the SSL key file to use for SSL connections.
--server-cert certfile
Specify the SSL certificate file to use for SSL connections.
--socketpath pathname
Listen on UNIX domain path pathname instead of a TCP socket.
--socketowner name
Set UNIX domain socket to be owned by the user named name. Note that
this requires that spamd be started as "root", and if "-u" is used,
that user should have write permissions to unlink the file later, for
when the "spamd" server is killed.
--socketgroup name
Set UNIX domain socket to be owned by the group named name. See
"--socketowner" for notes on ownership and permissions.
--socketmode mode
Set UNIX domain socket to use the octal mode mode. Note that if "-u"
is used, that user should have write permissions to unlink the file
later, for when the "spamd" server is killed.
SEE ALSO
spamc(1) spamassassin(1) Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3) Mail::SpamAssassin(3)
PREREQUISITES
"Mail::SpamAssassin"
AUTHORS
The SpamAssassin(tm) Project (http://spamassassin.apache.org/)
LICENSE
SpamAssassin is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, as
described in the file "LICENSE" included with the distribution.
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