xtremxpert/docker-spamassassin repository overview

⁠docker-spamassassin

SpamAssassin as a Docker image. It runs spamd on exposed port 783 and constantly updates its ruleset.

⁠Usage

docker run -d -p 783:783 xtremxpert/spamassassin

or linked (this is how I use it)

docker run -d --name spamassassin xtremxper/spamassassin
docker run -d --link spamassassin:spamassassin application-with-spamc-or-something

⁠Configuration (environment variables)

None at the moment.

⁠Data persistence

It has been a design decision to discard exporting the ruleset to a data volume as it will be always be brought up-to-date (quite quickly) upon starting a new container. Also currently there is no intention to have a custom config.

⁠Explaining run.sh

This is a poor man's supervisord. It is my strong (but not so much challenged) belief, that there shouldn't be yet another process manager (Docker has one, CoreOS has one (with fleet and systemd).

The only thing this script does is watching its forked (background) processes and as soon as one dies, it terminates all the others and exits with the code of the first dying process.

⁠Todo

• Make sure my little script above works in all circumstances. I know that when omitting the -d one cannot stop the process using <Ctrl><c>.