Bob Hoffman wrote:

So..

To answer my own question...

so I edited the file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

whitelist_from logwatch@localhost.localdomain

Where localhost.localdomain is your hostname.servername

And it worked.

However, I am concerned about spoofing. I would think that mail agent and spamassassin would have an 'okay, it's a local user' thing going on.

Generally, using 'whitelist_from' is a bad idea due to spoofing. The address you are using will probably not cause too many problems, but you should still fix it if possible. Use 'whitelist_from_rcvd' instead. This will whitelist the address only if the mail comes from a specified domain.

Try this (untested):

whitelist_from_rcvd logwatch@localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain

Note that this will require your DNS server to resolve localhost.localdomain (forward and reverse).

Another option is to configure your mail server to bypass SA entirely for local mail.