Re[2]: SpamAssissan doesn't run after installation ?

[Michael Grant via users <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>]

Christopher,

It's still not clear what you are doing.  I tried to guess what you did 
wrong the last time I replied trying to be helpful but you must not have 
understood what I wrote or for whatever reason just ignored me and the 
others who responded.

First, one generally does not need to manually run spamd.  Generally the 
spamassassin package you install on your linux system sets that up to 
start at boot and starts it.  It may already be running in fact if you 
installed spamassassin from a package.  Or you may need to simply enable 
it with 'systemctl enable spamassasin' and then start it with 'systemctl 
start spamassassin'.  But here I go, I'm guessing again.

Second, I think you need to ask your AI some more but different 
questions or ask one of the other AIs.  I dunno, maybe prompt it to help 
you set up spamassassin to filter your mail or something like that, as 
in, start over from scratch.  But to be frank, your messages seem to 
imply you have little to no experience doing this stuff.  You are not 
going to get help from this list to teach you basic unix/linux sysadmin 
and networking skills.

Trying to randomly type commands to get spamd to magically filter your 
spam for you is simply not going to work.

Do some web searches to find some basic tutorials on unix and linux and 
almost certainly there's a youtube video tutorial out there of someone 
explaining spamassassin in detail.

If you have specific intelligent questions and if you give details of 
what you did like starting from which operating system you are using, 
how you installed spamassassin, what exactly you are trying to 
accomplish along with a specific questions, someone, maybe even myself, 
will try to answer.

Good luck.

Michael Grant


------ Original Message ------
From "FalconChristopher" <Fa...@bell.net>
To users@spamassassin.apache.org; "Marc" <Ma...@f1-outsourcing.eu>
Cc users@spamassassin.apache.org
Date 03/05/2026 23:01:02
Subject Re: SpamAssissan doesn't run after installation ?

>On 4/26/2026 8:38 AM, FalconChristopher wrote:
>>
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>>On 4/26/2026 6:30 AM, Marc wrote:
>>>Just run it from packages in alpine or so, and run spamd.
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: FalconChristopher
>>>><Fa...@bell.net> <ma...@bell.net>
>>>>Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2026 02:34
>>>>To:
>>>>users@spamassassin.apache.org
>>>>Subject: SpamAssissan doesn't run after installation ?
>>>>
>>>>I hope someone can help. I installed SpamAssissan using cpan. And
>>>>although everything installed correctly, and I checked where
>>>>SpamAssissan is installed. I'm unable to get it to run. I locate the
>>>>executable files but when I run, nothing happens ?
>>>>
>>>>Christopher
>>I found the location of `spamd`; I wasn't aware that I had to run 
>>`spamd` over `spamassissan`. Although when running `spamd` which 
>>exists in two paths, I get this error;
>>
>>>spamd: could not create IO::Socket::IP socket on [::1]:783: 
>>>Permission denied server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could 
>>>not create IO::Socket::IP socket on [1xx.0.0.1]:783: Permission 
>>>denied
>>>
>>Christopher
>>
>I did decide to ask Ai regarding the above issue with SpamAssassin 
>attempting to access a socket; although in my back and forth 
>conversation with Ai. All of it's suggestions failed. How do I get the 
>command `spamd` to access the socket as to run in the background. 
>Without it operating, I cannot proceed ahead with anything else ?
>
>Christopher
>
>
>
>>