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 -a and -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 -a (AWL) 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.
    %l -- replaced with the 'local part' of the current username.  In other words, if the username is an email address, this is the part before the "@" sign.
    %d -- replaced with the 'domain' of the current username.  In other words, if the username is an email address, this is the part after the "@" sign.
    %% -- 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" disables the setuid() functionality and leaves spamd running as root.

    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.