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Running the Plugin

a. cd back to wherever you want to start the plugin. Do a $which spamfilter to make sure spamfilter is installed.

b. Start the plugin:

    On Linux: $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamfilter start
    On Solaris: $ /etc/init.d/spamfilter start
    On FreeBSD: $ /etc/rc.spamfilter start
c. Do the following to see if it is running:
    $ ps -ax | grep "spamfilter"
d. You can check syslog for plugin information or errors.

Important Notes:

  • Plugin does not need root access to communicate with Sendmail. It is a good security practice to run a program only with root privileges if really necessary. If you try to run the plugin as root, plugin will run it as 'spamfilter'.


  • Put the socket in a directory that the user can write to:
      e.g. `S=local:/etc/spamfilter/spamfilter.sock'
    Otherwise, you will get 'socket unsafe' errors in syslog if debug is on.

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