Hi, we want to migrate our old mailserver (Sun E450 with Solaris 2.7, sendmail and SA 2.64) to a Linux rack-server with debian linux, qmail and SA 3.x on it. Now the new box is up and running so far and I wanted to test it first with spamd/spamc to compare the more or less vanilla SA 3 performance with our old setup of 2.64 with lots of custom rule-sets (but which gets more and more outdated and annoys me;-).
I started spamd from the command line: in:~# /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -A 137.226.4.0/24 -D --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid trying to connect to syslog/unix... no error connecting to syslog/unix logging enabled: facility: mail socket: unix output: syslog creating INET socket: Listen: 128 LocalAddr: 127.0.0.1 LocalPort: 783 Proto: 6 ReuseAddr: 1 Type: 1 debug: SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 [...] logmsg: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.0.2) logmsg: server successfully spawned child process, pid 4886 logmsg: server successfully spawned child process, pid 4887 logmsg: server successfully spawned child process, pid 4888 logmsg: server successfully spawned child process, pid 4889 logmsg: server successfully spawned child process, pid 4890 server pid: 4884 So at least everything seems to be running. But when I try to connect from another machine, I get the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> spamc -d gin -l < SPAM.vanilla spamc: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 137.226.4.160 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused spamc: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 137.226.4.160 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused spamc: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 137.226.4.160 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused spamc: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries But: I don't get an entry at the log files of the spamd host. I can't even test it on gin itsself, the same result. What can I do to debug this situation? Why is the spamd host not listening? Is it because of qmail? I think it get's somehow started with qmail-scanner normally, but I am not the one configuring the mail-server... Thanks for any help Dirk -- Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Kuypers Lehrstuhl fuer Kommunikationsnetze, RWTH Aachen Kopernikusstr. 16, 52074 Aachen, W101 Tel: +49 241 879 3779, RWTH: +49 241 (80) 20547