On Apr 6, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Tor Slettnes wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2004, at 06:33, Michael Johnson wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 2004, at 6:27 AM, Tor Slettnes wrote:
>>
>>> - SpamAssassin is indeed listening on port 783 on the remote host?
>>> ('telnet sa-server 783')
>>
>> It's running, but only for the localhost. When I connect from the
>> machine where it's running, it answers fine. When I try to connect
>> from any remote machine, I get rejected.
>
> You need to start 'spamd' something like '--listen-ip=0.0.0.0' (by
> default, it listens only to the loopback address 127.0.0.1).
So theoretically, I could get it to listen to a specific IP or is that
the IP it listens from. Would that be --listen-ip=my.ip.add.ress or
--listen-ip=rem.ote.ip.addr ? It's not immediately clear.
> Beware of the security implications. Don't leave that machine (or at
> least, port 783/tcp on that machine) exposed to the world (or even a
> LAN).
>
> As a Mac OS X user, you ought to familiarize yourself a little with
> the 'man' command. (Type 'man man' for info). "man spamc" would have
> given you the answer you were looking for 2 mails back; "man spamd"
> would have given you the answer above.
The man is great when you know what you're looking for. I use it quite
often and have for over a decade with commands I know. However, when
I'm trying to learn about a command, man is confusing and more of a
hindrance than a help.
Incidentally, "man spamd" brings "No manual entry for spamd", and spamc
brings a similar result. I installed it normally through CPAN and have
set up my manpath to all the usual suspects. On my FreeBSD system I
get the same result, but I didn't do the installation on that system.
Further search (although apparently not exhaustive) on the SpamAssassin
site didn't give me an understandable result. That's when I decided to
ask here where I might find someone who understands it better and can
give a clearer and more complete explanation as to how it works.
-Michael
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
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