In the spirit of sharing what I've learned . . . My question boiled down to this: > Can I arrange to load/run only the tests I need? If so, how?
The answer is actually quite simple:
1) Create a private rules directory, say, $HOME/sa-rules
2) Copy the following files from /usr/share/spamassassin to
$HOME/sa-rules:
10_default_prefs.cf
50_scores.cf
languages
user_prefs.template
plus the rule(s) you want to run.
3) Invoke spamassassin as follows:
spamassassin --configpath=$HOME/sa-rules ...
Done.
