NAME
spamc - client for spamd
SYNOPSIS
OPTIONS
- -d host
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Connect to spamd server on given host
- -f
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Cause spamc to safe-failover if it can't connect to spamd -- what this means is that in case spamc fails to connect to spamd, it will not return with an exitcode set, it will instead dump the original message to stdout, allowing the message to be delivered, albeit unscanned for spam. Without this flag, connection failures to spamd will cause message delivery failures. Even with this flag set however, if spamc connects successfully, and then encounters an error at a later stage of communication, it will still return an exitcode.
- -h
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Print this help message and terminate without action
- -p port
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Connect to spamd server listening on given port
- -s max_size
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Set the maximum message size which will be sent to spamd -- any bigger than this threshold and the message will be returned unprocessed. Note that the default size is 250k, so if spamc gets handed a message bigger than this, it won't be passed to spamd. The size is specified in bytes, and if you send it a negative number, things are quite likely to break very hard.
- -u username
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This argument has been obsoleted. To have spamd use per-user-config files, run spamc as the user whose config files spamd should load.
DESCRIPTION
Spamc is the client half of the spamc/spamd pair. It should be used in place of spamassassin -P in scripts to process mail. It will read the mail from stdin, and spool it to its connection to spamd, then read the result back and print it to stdout. Spamc has extremely low overhead in loading, so it should be much faster to load than the whole spamassassin program.
See the README file in the spamd directory of the SpamAssassin distribution for more details.
SEE ALSO
spamd(1) spamassassin(1) Mail::SpamAssassin(3)
AUTHOR
Craig R Hughes <craig@hughes-family.org>
PREREQUISITES
Mail::SpamAssassin