Check if your spamd listens to localhost (127.0.0.1) on port 783. As you dont specify a host with -d that's where spamc will connect to.
a 'telnet localhost 783' will tell you that.
-Sietse
From: Alexander Gomer
Sent: Wed 13-Dec-06 12:27
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: spamc vs. spamassassin
Hello list, i have a strange problem. When i try to feed spamassassin with the sample-spam.txt, then spamassassin make his job good. But when i give the sample-spam.txt to spamc, the message is not identified as spam. I googled a lot and searched this list, but cannot find any hints. Here comes the output: spamassassin -D < /usr/share/doc/spamc/sample-spam.txt [3381] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [3381] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [3381] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 [3381] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen. [3381] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes [3381] dbg: util: taint mode: deleting unsafe environment variables, --- cut --- X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on xx.xx.xx --- cut --- spam:~# spamc < /usr/share/doc/spamc/sample-spam.txt X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on xx.xx.xx Begin of the Message ... -- cut --- I am very confused about this. I am running Debian-Sarge (up to date), Spamassassin 3.1.7 (loaded from CPAN). Spammassassin is running in deamon-mode: spam:~# ps aux|grep spamd root 3365 0.0 5.3 31972 27624 ? Ss 12:51 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/sbin/spamd -v --debug --create-prefs --nouser-config --configpath=/etc/spamassassin/ --max-children 3 --helper-home-dir -u spamfilter -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid Why does spamc not 'connect' to spamassassin? I hope, my facts are enough. Otherwise i will give more output, if needed. Thank you. Alex
