On 2017-12-12 06:41:19 -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > $ systemctl status spamassassin.service
> > ● spamassassin.service - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
> >    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spamassassin.service; disabled; 
> > vendor preset: enabled)
> >    Active: inactive (dead)
> 
> Please run:
> systemctl enable spamassassin.service
> systemctl start spamassassin.service

Now OK.

> > Before the upgrade, it was working fine, and I haven't changed
> > anything in the configuration.
> 
> Believe it or not, it's a bug that you were running spamd in the first
> place, as you had not enabled it. spamd is an optional feature of the
> spamassassin package. Therefor, unlike most daemons shipped with Debian,
> it is disabled by default and only enabled at the explicit request of
> the admin. In the sysvinit days, that was accomplished with a setting in
> /etc/default/spamassassin, but that mechanism has changed with systemd.
> The systemd method was not working correctly until recently...

Perhaps, but at least, this should have been announced in NEWS.Debian.

And I'm not sure that changing an existing configuration without a
confirmation by the user is the right thing to do.

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