Thanks for the tip. > You seem to be a bit confused about the different parts of SpamAssassin. > > spamassassin - This is a standalone program that can be called to scan > an email. You usually want to avoid using this because it has to load > the Perl interpreter for each messages.
As it turned out, I was confusing two similar names scripts. One script was supposed to be installed under /etc/init.d, which did contain all required start, stop and restart functions I was looking for. The other was the regular spamassassin script located at /usr/bin. Sorry to have troubled you for such simple mistakes. Amitabh
