Install spamd as a service

Thanks for the detailed information : It's been a while since I gave up on this but will definitely try that. CoreTech CoreTech 3 3 bronze badges.

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Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related While hMailServer has some native support for SpamAssassin, I figured I would write up the steps I used to get things running smoothly as a Windows service.

Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content I was having some issues with spam on my mail server hMailServer , so I decided to set up SpamAssassin to filter things before they hit my inbox. In the Application field, enter the full path to the SpamAssassin daemon executable, spamd.

In the Arguments field, enter the parameters for the SpamAssassin daemon. This page at the Apache web site documents all the available command line flags for spamd.

You can set the path to your config files, specify the listening port, enable LDAP, and much more, but we'll go with the defaults for this tutorial and not add any parameters. In the Name field, enter the name that you will call the application in AlwaysUp. We have used Spamd the default but you can specify almost anything you like. Click over to the Startup tab and check the Ensure that the Windows Networking components have started box. There is a paid for version which is simpler and has some nice auto update features but with a little work you can also schedule auto updates using the free version.

The following relates only to the free version. EXE to install SpamD. EXE" the above just creates an empty wrapper service for spamd. You may need to switch off your firewall during this install so that it can auto update to latest spam rules during install.

It will then create some firewall rules for you. Then switch firewall back on.