spamc doesn't write spam headers anymore
Submitted by Bram Schoenmakers on 16 September, 2007 - 12:03.
After upgrading to SpamAssassin 3.2.2 and switching to the spamd/spamc construction, all of a sudden spamc didn't write any additional headers to mails.
Running
spamc -l
revealed this output:
spamc: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
spamc: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
spamc: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
spamc: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
spamc: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
spamc: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
spamc: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
Strange, because I was pretty sure I activated the spamd bootscripts on Gentoo (and I confirmed it was). So a manual start of spamd solved the problem. I don't understand why spamd didn't start at boot time.
Update 12 October 2007:
Seen the same symptoms under FreeBSD 6.2, so I'm still investigating this.