Are you running spamassassin via procmail?  If you're running it through 
amavisd-new, it doesn't pay attention to user preferences...only system 
wide preferences (/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf).

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, gs-list wrote:

> I sent out a message a few days ago, and haven't gotten any response 
> yet.  This is becoming a "hot" issue with some of my users, and it'd be 
> great if somebody has some insight or can direct me to somewhere other than 
> the general "RTFM" response.  I've checked the IRC channel, (it was 
> uninhabited for a period of 36 hours straight...) and I've exhaustively 
> searched every link that Google comes up with on this subject.  I can't 
> find any links to email addresses on the spamassassin.org website, so I am 
> imploring somebody on this list to lend a helping hand.
> 
> Here is a copy of my original email, again:
> 
> Greetings fellow SpamAssassins:
> 
> I have installed SpamAssassin 2.43 on my primary mailserver in a sitewide 
> configuration, so it filters all inbound mail on my server.  I am running 
> Sendmail 8.12.6, and have spamass-milter creating the sock, and a line in 
> my sendmail.cf pointing to that sock.
> 
> I am having some difficulty with the SpamAssassin per-user preferences 
> configuration.  I have attempted, in assorted methods, to get spamd to read 
> a user preferences file.  I first set the SPAMD_ARGS to include a -c which, 
> according to the manpage for spamd, forces spamd to create the user 
> preferences files.   I cannot find the location where the spamd daemon is 
> creating these, if at all.  They're certainly not going into the 
> /home/username/.spamassassin directories.
> 
> I've also added the --virtual-config=dir and -x arguments, and supplied a 
> separate directory for files, titled username.prefs, where 'username' is 
> replaced with the username desiring the custom preferences.   Spamassassin 
> is still not reading that preferences file, either.
> 
> Some users want the required score of 5, while other people want a much 
> "looser" score for SPAM filtering.  This is why I need to utilize the 
> per-user configurations.  It is entirely possible that I am doing something 
> wrong, and that I don't understand how this is supposed to be configured.
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Unfortunately, the 
> documentation is not thorough enough to answer this question - I have 
> RTFM'd several times with no luck, and this is why I am asking you fine 
> people for your assistance!
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Gregg 
> 
> 
> 
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