Thanks Bowie, sure enough the actual spamd process was running as a different user. The file to configure the user it runs under is /etc/syscofnig/spamassassin
So I'm now seeing Bayes show up in the mail headers! Many thanks, Nick -----Original Message----- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 2:31 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin working very poorly On 10/8/2014 2:13 PM, Nick wrote: > In postfix, I'm calling spamassassin with the 2 lines: > smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o > content_filter=spamassassin > spamassassin unix - n n - - pipe flags=R > user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} > ${recipient} This shows spamc being called. > In /etc/cron.d/sa-learn I have: > 51 * * * * spamd sa-learn --spam /var/log/spamassassin/SPAM/ > >/dev/null 2>&1 > 52 * * * * spamd sa-learn --ham /var/log/spamassassin/HAM/ >/dev/null > 2>&1 (/var/log/spamassassin is spamd's home directory, and it's where > the SPAM/HAM is getting copied for learning) This shows sa-learn being called. > My /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file is: > required_hits 5 > report_safe 0 > rewrite_header Subject [SPAM] > required_score 5.0 > use_bayes 1 > use_bayes_rules 1 > bayes_auto_learn 0 > bayes_path /var/log/spamassassin/.spamassassin/bayes And this shows a site-wide bayes db, which should be used by both spamd and sa-learn regardless of user. But I still don't see how you start spamd. For CentOS, it should be started by /etc/init.d/spamd (or something similar). There may also be options defined in /etc/sysconfig/spamd (or similar). -- Bowie
