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=head1 NAME
spamc - client for spamd
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=over
=item spamc [options] < message
=back
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Spamc is the client half of the spamc/spamd pair. It should be used in place
of C<spamassassin> in scripts to process mail. It will read the mail from
STDIN, and spool it to its connection to spamd, then read the result back and
print it to STDOUT. Spamc has extremely low overhead in loading, so it should
be much faster to load than the whole spamassassin program.
See the F<README> file in the F<spamd> directory of the SpamAssassin
distribution for more details.
=head1 OPTIONS
All options detailed below can be passed as command line arguments, or be
contained in a configuration file, as described in the B<CONFIGURATION FILE>
section below.
Note that the long options, a la C<--long-options>, are new as of
SpamAssassin 3.2.0, and were not available in earlier versions.
=over
=item B<-B>, B<--bsmtp>
Assume input is a single BSMTP-formatted message. In other words, spamc will
pull out everything between the DATA line and the lone-dot line to feed to
spamd, and will place the spamd output back in the same envelope (thus, any
SIZE extension in your BSMTP file will cause many problems).
=item B<-c>, B<--check>
Just check if the message is spam or not. Set process exitcode to 1 if
message is spam, 0 if not spam or processing failure occurs. Will print
score/threshold to stdout (as ints) or 0/0 if there was an error.
Combining B<-c> and B<-E> is a no-op, since B<-c> implies the behaviour
of B<-E>.
=item B<-d> I<host[,host2]>, B<--dest>=I<host[,host2]>
In TCP/IP mode, connect to spamd server on given host (default: localhost).
Several hosts can be specified if separated by commas.
If I<host> resolves to multiple addresses, then spamc will fail-over to the
other addresses, if the first one cannot be connected to. It will first try
all addresses of one host before it tries the next one in the list.
Note that this fail-over behaviour is incompatible with B<-x>; if that
switch is used, fail-over will not occur.
=item B<-e> I<command> I<[args]>, B<--pipe-to> I<command> I<[args]>
Instead of writing to stdout, pipe the output to I<command>'s standard input.
Note that there is a very slight chance mail will be lost here, because if the
fork-and-exec fails there's no place to put the mail message.
Note that this must be the LAST command line option, as everything after the
B<-e> is taken as arguments to the command (it's like I<rxvt> or I<xterm>).
This option is not supported on Win32 platforms.
=item B<-E>, B<--exitcode>
Filter according to the other options, but set the process exitcode to 1 if
message is spam, 0 if not spam or processing failure occurs.
=item B<-F> I</path/to/file>, B<--config>=I<path>
Specify a configuration file to read additional command-line flags from.
See B<CONFIGURATION FILE> below.
=item B<-h>, B<--help>
Print this help message and terminate without action.
=item B<-H>, B<--randomize>
For TCP/IP sockets, randomize the IP addresses returned for the hosts given
by the B<-d> switch. This provides for a simple kind of load balancing. It
will try only three times though.
=item B<-l>, B<--log-to-stderr>
Send log messages to stderr, instead of to the syslog.
=item B<-L> I<learn type>, B<--learntype>=I<type>
Send message to spamd for learning. The C<learn type> can be either spam,
ham or forget. The exitcode for spamc will be set to 5 if the message
was learned, or 6 if it was already learned, under a condition that
a B<--no-safe-fallback> option is selected too.
Note that the C<spamd> must run with the C<--allow-tell> option for
this to work.
=item B<-C> I<report type>, B<--reporttype>=I<type>
Report or revoke a message to one of the configured collaborative filtering
databases. The C<report type> can be either report or revoke.
Note that the C<spamd> must run with the C<--allow-tell> option for
this to work.
=item B<-p> I<port>, B<--port>=I<port>
In TCP/IP mode, connect to spamd server listening on given port
(default: 783).
=item B<-r>, B<--full-spam>
Just output the SpamAssassin report text to stdout, if the message is
spam. If the message is ham (non-spam), nothing will be printed. The
first line of the output is the message score and the threshold, in
this format:
score/threshold
=item B<-R>, B<--full>
Just output the SpamAssassin report text to stdout, for all messages.
See B<-r> for details of the output format used.
=item B<-s> I<max_size>, B<--max-size>=I<max_size>
Set the maximum message size which will be sent to spamd -- any bigger than
this threshold and the message will be returned unprocessed (default: 500 KB).
If spamc gets handed a message bigger than this, it won't be passed to spamd.
The maximum message size is 256 MB.
The size is specified in bytes, as a positive integer greater than 0.
For example, B<-s 500000>.
=item B<--connect-retries>=I<retries>
Retry connecting to spamd I<retries> times. The default is 3 times.
=item B<--retry-sleep>=I<sleep>
Sleep for I<sleep> seconds between attempts to connect to spamd.
The default is 1 second.
=item B<--filter-retries>=I<retries>
Retry filtering I<retries> times if the spamd process fails (usually times
out). This differs from B<--connect-retries> in that it times out the
transaction after the TCP connection has been established successfully.
The default is 1 time (ie. one attempt and no retries).
=item B<--filter-retry-sleep>=I<sleep>
Sleep for I<sleep> seconds between failed spamd filtering attempts.
The default is 1 second.
=item B<-S>, B<--ssl>, B<--ssl>=I<sslversion>
If spamc was built with support for SSL, encrypt data to and from the
spamd process with SSL; spamd must support SSL as well.
I<sslversion> specifies the SSL protocol version to use, either
C<sslv3>, or C<tlsv1>. The default, is C<sslv3>.
=item B<-t> I<timeout>, B<--timeout>=I<timeout>
Set the timeout for spamc-to-spamd communications (default: 600, 0 disables).
If spamd takes longer than this many seconds to reply to a message, spamc
will abort the connection and treat this as a failure to connect; in other
words the message will be returned unprocessed.
=item B<-n> I<timeout>, B<--connect-timeout>=I<timeout>
Set the timeout for spamc-to-spamd connection establishment (default: 600, 0
disables). If spamc takes longer than this many seconds to establish a
connection to spamd, spamc will abort the connection and treat this as a
failure to connect; in other words the message will be returned unprocessed.
=item B<-u> I<username>, B<--username>=I<username>
To have spamd use per-user-config files, run spamc as the user whose config
files spamd should load; by default the effective user-ID is sent to spamd. If
you're running spamc as some other user, though, (eg. root, mail, nobody,
cyrus, etc.) then you may use this flag to override the default.
=item B<-U> I<socketpath>, B<--socket>=I<path>
Connect to C<spamd> via UNIX domain socket I<socketpath> instead of a
TCP/IP connection.
This option is not supported on Win32 platforms.
=item B<-V>, B<--version>
Report the version of this C<spamc> client. If built with SSL support,
an additional line will be included noting this, like so:
SpamAssassin Client version 3.0.0-rc4
compiled with SSL support (OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004)
=item B<-x>, B<--no-safe-fallback>
Disables the 'safe fallback' error-recovery method, which passes through the
unaltered message if an error occurs. Instead, exit with an error code, and
let the MTA queue up the mails for a retry later. See also L<"EXIT CODES">.
This also disables the TCP fail-over behaviour from B<-d>.
=item B<-X>, B<--unavailable-tempfail>
When disabling 'safe fallback' with B<-x>, this option will turn EX_UNAVAILABLE
errors into EX_TEMPFAIL. This may allow your MTA to defer mails with a
temporary SMTP error instead of bouncing them with a permanent SMTP error.
See also L<"EXIT CODES">.
=item B<-y>, B<--tests>
Just output the names of the tests hit to stdout, on one line, separated
by commas.
=item B<-K>
Perform a keep-alive check of spamd, instead of a full message check.
=item B<-z>
Use gzip compression to compress the mail message sent to C<spamd>. This is
useful for long-distance use of spamc over the internet. Note that this relies
on C<zlib> being installed on the C<spamc> client side, and the
C<Compress::Zlib> perl module on the server side; an error will be returned
otherwise.
=item B<--headers>
Perform a scan, but instead of allowing any part of the message (header and
body) to be rewritten, limit rewriting to only the message headers. This is
much more efficient in bandwidth usage, since the response message transmitted
back from the spamd server will not include the body.
Note that this only makes sense if you are using C<report_safe 0> in the
scanning configuration on the remote end; with C<report_safe 1>, it is
likely to result in corrupt messages.
=back
=head1 CONFIGURATION FILE
The above command-line switches can also be loaded from a configuration
file.
The format of the file is similar to the SpamAssassin rules files; blank lines
and lines beginning with C<#> are ignored. Any space-separated words are
considered additions to the command line, and are prepended. Newlines are
treated as equivalent to spaces. Existing command line switches will override
any settings in the configuration file.
If the B<-F> switch is specified, that file will be used. Otherwise,
C<spamc> will attempt to load spamc.conf in C<SYSCONFDIR> (default:
/etc/mail/spamassassin). If that file doesn't exist, and the B<-F>
switch is not specified, no configuration file will be read.
Example:
# spamc global configuration file
# connect to "server.example.com", port 783
-d server.example.com
-p 783
# max message size for scanning = 350k
-s 350000
=head1 EXIT CODES
By default, spamc will use the 'safe fallback' error recovery method. That
means, it will always exit with an exit code of C<0>, even if an error was
encountered. If any error occurrs, it will simply pass through the unaltered
message.
The B<-c> and B<-E> options modify this; instead, spamc will use an exit code
of C<1> if the message is determined to be spam.
If one of the C<-x>, C<-L> or C<-C> options are specified, 'safe fallback' will
be disabled, and certain error conditions related to communication between
spamc and spamd will result in an error code.
The exit codes used are as follows:
EX_USAGE 64 command line usage error
EX_DATAERR 65 data format error
EX_NOINPUT 66 cannot open input
EX_NOUSER 67 addressee unknown
EX_NOHOST 68 host name unknown
EX_UNAVAILABLE 69 service unavailable
EX_SOFTWARE 70 internal software error
EX_OSERR 71 system error (e.g., can't fork)
EX_OSFILE 72 critical OS file missing
EX_CANTCREAT 73 can't create (user) output file
EX_IOERR 74 input/output error
EX_TEMPFAIL 75 temp failure; user is invited to retry
EX_PROTOCOL 76 remote error in protocol
EX_NOPERM 77 permission denied
EX_CONFIG 78 configuration error
* The EX_TOOBIG error level is never used. If spamc receives a message
that is too big, the exit code will be 0.
EX_TOOBIG 98 message was too big to process (see --max-size)
=head1 SEE ALSO
spamd(1)
spamassassin(1)
Mail::SpamAssassin(3)
=head1 PREREQUISITES
C<Mail::SpamAssassin>
=head1 AUTHORS
The SpamAssassin(tm) Project <http://spamassassin.apache.org/>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
SpamAssassin is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, as
described in the file C<LICENSE> included with the distribution.