I did a new install of debian and find that exim and spamassassin are not recognized
services. That is, in /etc/systemd/system/ exim and spanassassin are not listed.

So when I do

# systemctl start exim.service
RROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

This no help:

# systemctl enable exim.service
ERROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

# systemctl start exim
ERROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

Why are exim and spamassassin automatically present as services?

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On 25.04.2025 16:24, Haines Brown wrote:

I did a new install of debian and find that exim and spamassassin are not recognized
services. That is, in /etc/systemd/system/ exim and spanassassin are not listed.

So when I do

# systemctl start exim.service
RROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

systemctl start exim4.service
systemctl start spamd.service


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On 2025-04-25 at 09:24, Haines Brown wrote:

I did a new install of debian and find that exim and spamassassin
are not recognized services. That is, in /etc/systemd/system/ exim
and spanassassin are not listed.

Did you install the packages for them? I'm not sure about exim, but I'm
fairly confident that spamassassin will not be included in most new
installs of Debian, unless specifically requested (either for itself or
as part of a task/"workload" to be selected during the install process).

So when I do

# systemctl start exim.service
RROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

Why are exim and spamassassin automatically present as services?

I don't run systemd myself, but based on what I see in the output of
'apt-file search' with appropriate parameters, you might try with
exim4.service instead. That's provide by both the exim4-daemon-light and exim4-daemon-heavy packages.

There's also exim4-base.service, provided by the exim4-base package.

For spamassassin, I find reference to spamassassin-maintenance.service, provided by the spamassassin package.

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On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 09:24:14 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:

I did a new install of debian and find that exim and spamassassin are not recognized
services. That is, in /etc/systemd/system/ exim and spanassassin are not listed.

So when I do

# systemctl start exim.service
RROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

This no help:

# systemctl enable exim.service
ERROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

# systemctl start exim
ERROR:systemctl:Unit exim.service could not be found.

Why are exim and spamassassin automatically present as services?

You could try installing bash-completion. Subsequently:

$ systemctl status exi ← TAB pressed twice
exim4-base.service exim4-base.timer exim4.service exit.target
$ systemctl status exi

Cheers,
David.

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