Matt, thank you for help. Running "spamassassin - lint -D" the .pre files are read:
# spamassassin --lint -D ... [1002] dbg: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules pre files [1002] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre [1002] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre [1002] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v312.pre [1002] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v320.pre I think that the permissions are correct for the Amavis read the files # ls -ld /etc/mail/spamassassin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 amavis amavis 4096 2008-08-22 13:02 /etc/mail/spamassassin// # ls -ld /etc/mail/spamassassin/* -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 1299 2007-09-08 11:22 /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 1366 2007-09-08 11:22 /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf drwx------ 2 amavis amavis 79 2008-08-20 19:44 /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/ -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 62 2007-09-08 11:22 /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-default.rc -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 55 2007-09-08 11:22 /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 2604 2007-09-08 11:22 /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 1195 2007-09-08 11:22 /etc/mail/spamassassin/v312.pre -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 2416 2008-08-21 19:37 /etc/mail/spamassassin/v320.pre -- []'s Thiago Henrique Network Administration Digirati Networks K8 Networks > Do you get the same thing out of spamassassin --lint -D? > > In general, it sounds like your site config directory (ie: > /etc/mail/spamassassin) doesn't have the requisite .pre files in it, so > no plugins are loaded.