I'd like to revisit this, now that I have sufficient energy to devote to some hard sleuthing. Despite the fact that I was less than sharp (ahem) when first looking at this, I do feel I have covered all the obvious suspects.
Some gentle nudges (or not) might get me rolling again. I suppose I should repost this with details of what I have done so far, as even those of kind and gentle nature may not be inclined to search it out. But I won't clutter further, if there is no interest. joe a. >>> "Joe Acquisto-j4" <j...@j4computers.com> 08/21/13 9:45 AM >>> > > Bear in mind, that will tell you whether those configuration files are > syntactically correct; that does not tell you anything about whether or > not those are the files the spamd daemon is using. > > Take a look at the script that starts spamd. It may have a hardcoded path > to the configuration directory. > > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ The /etc/init.d/spamd file has a hardcoded reference to that specific file. I'm pretty sure it is the one being read. However, I am not so certain others are not being read later. I find a lot of references, for example, to BAYES_99 in /usr/share/spamassassin/blah.cf. I certainly don't know if these would override the setting in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. joe a.
