Spamassassin rules not firing correctly

[Kai Schaetzl]

This is a common misunderstanding. SA via MS may not use the same config 
files than SA run manually.
SA uses /etc/mail/spamassassin
MS uses /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.conf symlinked to 
/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

You may have removed the mailscanner.conf link and changed the path in 
MailScanner.conf to use /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf 
directly. Or something similar I don't imagine. You may also have some 
extra user-specific config just for the user root.

You can run --lint -v for both (I think) to get an idea of which config 
files are getting used, this should tell you how to correct it.

My general recommendation (if you know SA well enough to configure it 
yourself) is:
- use only the files in /etc/mail/spamassassin for SA config
- remove the symlink and touch /etc/mail/mailscanner.conf, so that it 
becomes a zero-sized file
- put the config you want to have in the traditional file 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf (e.g. merge what's there with what you 
want from spam.assassin.prefs.conf) (or use more than one file, as you 
like, just make sure you don't have conflicting settings, merge resonably)

By doing so, you always get the same configuration, no matter which way 
you run SA. And the MS rpm will not attempt to set the symlink.

Kai

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