One of the issues might be FreeBsd jail. (and as earlier poster stated, amavisd-new doesn't call spamd) We are talking about amavisd-new, NOT amavisd, right?
I am the official ports maintainer of SpamAssassin, and would be interested in making sure it and amaivsd-new worked in a freebsd jail. Some of the 'jail' issues include NOT lo0 (localhost) ip address. (yes, you can ping localhost / 127.0.0.1, BUT, I suspect the ACL's in the amavisd.conf* files are looking for a Reverse ip == to 127.0.0.1 Things to try (assumes standard postfix/amavisd/spamassassin setup) Set $log_level = 9; in amavisd.conf, restart amavisd (you do have amavisd_enable = "yes" in rc.conf, right? Telnet localhost 25 Telnet localhost 10024 Telnet localhost 100025 See what happens. You SHOULD get banners. (I just get: (!)DENIED ACCESS from IP 192.168.1.20, policy bank '' Where 192.168.1.20 is the 'jail' ip address. Ifconfig (note, NO ip address on lo0?) bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> inet 192.168.1.200 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.70.1.20 ether 00:0a:22:1f:18:64 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active bge1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> ether 00:0a:22:1f:18:65 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 -- Michael Scheidell, CTO >|SECNAP Network Security _________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned and certified safe by SpammerTrap(tm). For Information please see http://www.spammertrap.com _________________________________________________________________________