Re: [cobalt-users] Spamassasin how to turn off ?

[Richard Siddall <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

someone wrote:
> Hello Tunc,
>
> I would presume that you have it integrated with MailScanner? Edit the 
> mailscanner.conf file. Reset the 'Spam Checks = yes' to 'no.' Then run 
> '/etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner reload'. If reload is not an option (I'm 
> assuming you are running the old Bassi rpm; I run MailScanner 4.24), you 
> will have to 'restart' mailscanner, which shuts down the 
> sendmail/mailscanner daemons for a quick a moment.
>
> Spamd only runs when mailscanner calls it. So everytime mailscanner 
> transfers mail over to spamd, it is literally restarted. Not sure why 
> you want to do it the way you want to?

Not quite true.

Julian Field, the author of MailScanner has said that MailScanner 
doesn't use spamd/spamc or the spamassassin command line script.  See: 
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0205&L=mailscanner&P=R26115&I=-1

However, since MailScanner uses the Perl API for SpamAssassin, 
restarting MailScanner effectively restarts SpamAssassin.

Regards,

	Richard.