NAME

spasmd - spasm anti-spam milter

SYNOPSIS

spasmd {--help | --version}

DESCRIPTION

spasmd is the daemon for the spasm anti-spam milter. A milter is a third-party program that accesses mail messages as they are processed in real-time by the sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

spasmd, in conjunction with the spasm editor, can be configured to reject, quarantine, or tag incoming spam messages on behalf of 1 to N e-mail recipients.

PRECONDITIONS

1.
spasmd requires root privileges for execution.
2.
spasmd must be configured to specify a socket for runtime communication with sendmail. The required socket, which is specified in the config file spasm.conf prior to running the daemon, may be stipulated in one of these three formats:
inet:port[@{hostname|ip-address}]
Where port is an IPv4 TCP port to bind.
unix:/path/to/socket
Where /path/to/socket is a unix domain socket to bind.
inet6:port[@{hostname|ip-address}]
Where port is an IPv6 TCP port to bind.

FURTHER READING

A detailed description of sendmail's milter facility may be found at http://www.milter.org/milter_api/index.html .

SEE ALSO

spasm(1), spasmdb(1), sendmail(8)

AUTHOR

Sean Hanson

BUGS

None that I know of. ;)