unable to install port spamd "Solved"

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 17:13, RW via freebsd-questions <
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 16:48:32 +0300
> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > rspamd does the same and more!
> > That is why I said it's a better alternative to Spamassassin.
>
> It may be (depending on your definition of better), but it's not an
> alternative to mail/spamd. rspamd and SpamAssassin are content filters,
> they run after the MTA has received the email's content.
>
>
> The daemon provided by mail/spamd can tarpit or greylist connections
> before any connection is made to the MTA.
>
>
BTW, you are right! I am sorry for confusing things.
I don't know why I was thinking about spamd in the context of Spamassassin.
I am very sorry for the unnecessary noise.


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