- -p socket
- Specifies the pathname of a socket to create for communication
with sendmail If it is removed, sendmail will not be
able to access the milter. This may cause messages to bounce,
queue, or be passed through unmiltered, depending on the parameters
in sendmail 's .cf file.
- -b spamaddress
- Redirects tagged spam to the specified email address. All
envelope recipients are removed, and inserted into the message as
`X-Spam-Orig-To:' headers.
- -B spamaddress
- Same as -b except the original recipients are retained.
Only one of -b and -B may be used.
- -d debugflags
- Enables logging. debugflags is a comma-separated list of
tokens:
- func
- Entry and exit of internal functions.
- misc
- Other non-verbose logging.
- net
- Lookups of the ignored netblocks list.
- poll
- Low-level I/O to the child spamc process.
- rcpt
- Recipient processing.
- spamc
- High-level I/O to the child spamc process.
- str
- Calls to field lookup and string comparison functions.
- uori
- Calls to the update_or_insert function.
- 1
- (historical) Same as func,misc
- 2
- (historical) Same as func,misc,poll
- 3
- (historical) Same as func,misc,poll,str,uori
- -D host
- Connects to a remote spamd server on host , instead of
using one on localhost. This option is deprecated; use -- -d
host instead.
- -e defaultdomain
- Pass the full user@domain
address to spamc. The default is to pass only the username part on
the assumption that all users are local. This flag is useful if you
are using an SQL (or other username) backend with spamassassin and
have listed the full address there. If the recipient name has no
domain part (if the recipient is on the local machine for example),
defaultdomain is added. Requires the -u flag.
- -f
- Causes to fork into the background.
- -i networks
- Ignores messages if the originating IP is in the network(s)
listed. The message will be passed through without calling
SpamAssassin at all. networks is a comma-separated list,
where each element can be either an IP address (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn), a
CIDR network (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/nn), or a network/netmask pair
(nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn). Multiple -i flags will
append to the list. For example, if you list all your internal
networks, no outgoing emails will be filtered.
- -m
- Disables modification of the `Subject:'
and `Content-Type:'
headers and message body. This is useful when SpamAssassin is
configured with `defang_mime' 0 and `report_header' 1 , or when SA
is simply used to add headers for postprocessing later. Updating
the body through the milter interface can be slow for large
messages.
- -M
- Like -m but also disables creation of any SpamAssassin
`X-Spam-*'
headers as well. Both tagged and untagged mail gets passed
through unchanged. To be useful, this option should be used with
the -r -b , or -B flags. If -b is used,
the `X-Spam-Orig-To:' headers will still be added.
- -P pidfile
- Create the file pidfile containing the processid of the
milter.
- -r nn
- Reject scanned email if it greater than or equal to nn
If -1 reject scanned email if SpamAssassin tags it as spam
(useful if you are also using the -u flag, and users have
changed their required_hits value).
For example, if you usually use procmail to redirect tagged
email into a separate folder just in case of false positives, you
can use -r 15 and reject flagrant spam outright while
still receiving low-scoring messages.
- -u defaultuser
- Pass the username part of the first recipient to spamc with the
-u flag. This allows user preferences files to be used. If
the message is addressed to multiple recipients, the username
defaultuser is passed instead.
Note that does not know whether an email is incoming or
outgoing, so a message from Aq user1@localdomain.com to Aq
user2@yahoo.com will make pass
-u user2 to spamc.
- -x
- Pass the recipient address through sendmail -bv which
will perform virtusertable and alias expansion. The resulting
username is then passed to spamc. Requires the -u flag.
- -- spamc flags ...
- Pass all remaining options to spamc. This allows you to connect
to a remote spamd with -d or -p