After a suggestion to separate options for spamd startup (thanks again to whoever that was), I see the SpamAssassin mysql user accessing the 'userpref' table.
646 Connect spamby@localhost on spamassassin 646 Query select preference, value from userpref where username = 'spamby' OR username = 'GLOBAL' 646 Quit Unfortunately, I do not see this value being used by Amavis-Postfix to trap spam. A manual query of the database shows: # mysql -u spamby -h localhost -pspampass spamassassin Your MySQL connection id is 647 to server version: 3.23.49-log mysql> select preference, value from userpref where username = 'spamby' OR username = 'GLOBAL'\G rewrite_subject, 1; report_header, 0; defang_mime, 0; use_terse_report, 0; required_hits, 7 (abbreviated) However, this is letting things through up to the default threshhold of 16 points. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]