[SA-exim] spamc -U /foo/bar

[Richard Lithvall]

Richard Salts wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to have sa-exim pass arguments to spamc. I
> have spamd running on a Unix socket so wanted to run spamc -U /foo/bar so I 
> changed SAspamcpath to that. However I get this as a result:
> 
> 2003-12-02 19:21:20 1AR5mR-0003nE-7g SA: PANIC: Unexpected error on exec /usr/bi
> n/spamc -U /tmp/spamd (but message was accepted), file sa-exim.c, line 848: No s
> uch file or directory
> 
> Yet it works fine when using spamc with no arguments.

Strange. Did you start spamd with the --socketpath option?
Here's my patch (that i sent Marc a while ago in hope that he would 
adopt it) verified and working in my environment.

/Richard



diff -ur sa-exim-3.1/sa-exim.c sa-exim-3.1-rich/sa-exim.c
--- sa-exim-3.1/sa-exim.c	Mon Aug 18 17:34:39 2003
+++ sa-exim-3.1-rich/sa-exim.c	Wed Sep 24 16:16:36 2003
@@ -505,6 +505,7 @@

      /* Options we read from /etc/mail/sa-exim.conf */
      static char *SAspamcpath=SPAMC_LOCATION;
+    static char *SAspamcSockPath=NULL;
      static char *SAEximRunCond="0";
      static char *SAEximRejCond="1";
      static int SAmaxbody=250*1024;
@@ -653,6 +654,7 @@

  	    M_CHECKFORVAR(SAEximDebug, "%d");
  	    M_CHECKFORSTR(SAspamcpath);
+	    M_CHECKFORSTR(SAspamcSockPath);
  	    M_CHECKFORSTR(SAEximRunCond);
  	    M_CHECKFORSTR(SAEximRejCond);
  	    M_CHECKFORVAR(SAmaxbody, "%d");
@@ -845,7 +847,11 @@
  	/* Ok, we cheat, spamc cares about how big the whole message is and
           * we only know  about the body size, so I'll  give an extra 16K
           * to account for any headers that can accompany the message */
-	ret=execl(SAspamcpath, "spamc", "-s", string_sprintf("%d", 
SAmaxbody+16384), NULL);
+	if(SAspamcSockPath){
+		ret=execl(SAspamcpath, "spamc", "-s", string_sprintf("%d", 
SAmaxbody+16384), "-U", SAspamcSockPath, NULL);
+	} else {
+		ret=execl(SAspamcpath, "spamc", "-s", string_sprintf("%d", 
SAmaxbody+16384), NULL);
+	}
  	CHECKERR(ret,string_sprintf("exec %s", SAspamcpath),__LINE__);
      }

diff -ur sa-exim-3.1/sa-exim.conf sa-exim-3.1-rich/sa-exim.conf
--- sa-exim-3.1/sa-exim.conf	Wed Aug 20 18:11:13 2003
+++ sa-exim-3.1-rich/sa-exim.conf	Wed Sep 24 16:28:19 2003
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
  # Default path is /usr/bin/spamc, but you can change it here
  SAspamcpath: /usr/bin/spamc

-
+# If SAspamcSockPath is set spamc uses socket to connect to spamd,
+# use --socketpath pathname as argument to spamd (new in SA 2.60).
+# Leave it unset if you want spamc to connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 
127.0.0.1 (this is the default).
+#SAspamcSockPath: /var/run/spamd.sock

  # Exim configuration string to run before running SA against the message
  # You should not put double quotes around the expression