Re: Starting spamd invokes plugin with the preloading message for TextCat loading

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> > As soon as I started spamd via spamd -Lx -p 7830. I get the following
> > displayed in the terminal
> > 
> > 6166c359a351a9ad990c05334ea520ec 
> > From: ignore@compiling.spamassassin.taint.org
> > Message-Id:  <10...@spamassassin_spamd_init>
> > 
> > Is there a way to prevent this message from invoking plugins ?
> 
> No.  spamd wants to get everything precompiled before processing messages,
> so it makes a fake message (as above) and sends it through a "check"
> to get it all set to go.
> 
> I don't recall off hand if there's an easy way to tell if you're in
> "compile_now" mode or not.

I don't think there is right now. That would be my preferred fix -- add a
boolean member variable to the Mail::SpamAssassin object which plugins can
test to see if compile_now() is active.   (and document that this is
what happens, and that plugins should expect it.)

> > Also, when I pass the message to spamc and redirect fd 4 to a file,
> > the output doesn't seem to go there unlike the invocation with
> > spamassassin. An empty file is created with the following invocation
> 
> Yeah.  spamc != spamassassin...   spamd is the one actually doing the
> processing, so the fd 4 bit happens in spamd.  spamc has absolutely no
> capability of dealing with that.

BTW for checking large numbers of messages with a plugin, mass-check might
be useful for this.

- --j.
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