Yes, amavisd is running and modifying the file "/etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf" has an effect on the spamassassin header messages added to emails. Thanks, that answers that question.
Now, the next question is, if I manually run # spamassassin -t < spam_filename I get a different, much higher spam score than is automatically inserted in the X-Spam-Score field. Note that, for this user, this has been done: # sa-learn --spam .Spam/cur/* On 1/18/15, Marieke Janssen <mjans...@myguard.nl> wrote: >>Spamassassin seems not to be getting the configuration changes that I >> make. > > Is it possible you run something like Amavis that controls SpamAssassin? > Headers and spamscore are usual controlled there and will override > local.cf. > > /MJ > >