[CentOS] SpamAssassin under CentOS-6.4

[Rob Kampen]

On 07/13/2013 10:44 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
>
>>> I wonder if anyone is actually running SpamAssassin
>>> with Postfix/Amavisd-new under CentOS-6.4 .
>>> I have followed the instructions in
>>> <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd>
>>> but as far as I can see SpamAssassin is not working.
>> I run spamassassin and postfix on my mailserver, but don't run amavisd.
> Thanks for your response.
> If I can't get SpamAssassin working with amavisd I'll do that.
> But I assume someone must have it working
> since it is referred to in the CentOS wiki.centos.org
> in various Howto's.
I just checked on my server - no process for spam* but there are 3 for 
amavis and I get emails into my client with the "***SPAM*** " heading, 
thus spamassassin is running and doing the task, called and managed by 
amavisd. I have never done an autopsy on the whole mix as it just worked 
when I followed the recipe.
>   
>> spamassassin adds a header to incoming email that looks something like
>> this:
>>
>> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-103.5 required=5.0
>> tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE,
>> RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham
>> version=3.3.1
> Yes, I realise that, and SpamAssassin on my system works fine
> if run with sample email
> 	spamassassin -D < spammail > spammail.out
> But as far as I can see, amavisd is not starting spamd running.
>
>> You can then configure your mail client to trash or sort email based on
>> the presence or absence of the [SPAM] tag in the subject line.
> Unfortunately, as I said, SA does not appear to be processing any email.
> Amavisd is setup to send any spam to ~/quarantine/
> but sadly this directory remains empty.
>