On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 21:47, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > On 06/04/2008 4:34 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 20:02, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > >> On 06/04/2008 2:58 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > >>> /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -A 127.0.0.1,192.168 --allow-tell -H -r > >>> I've obviously missed something, so I'd appreciate help in spotting the > >>> obvious mistake in configuring spamd. > >> "192.168" isn't valid for -A. See the spamd POD for more info or just > >> add a trailing dot so it reads "192.168.". > >> > > Thanks, but the problem still isn't solved. > > Ah, you're missing the -i option to tell it to listen on whatever IP is > on the "192.168." network. -A controls what client IPs are allowed to > connect to spamd. Again the POD for spamd is quite useful... it's a lot > more clear than the short help text. > That did it. Thanks. I was working from the manpage, rather than the help text, but that's pretty terse too. In particular it needs a sentence emphasising that -i and -A must be used together if spamd is to do anything other than work with localhost.
Thanks again, Martin