> > Is there any evidence that local.cf is getting read at all? > > Good question. Where do I look for such evidence? Logs are hardly > revealing.
if you are running postfix,amavisd-new and spamassassin chrooted be sure to not only change /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf but also <chroot>/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf -volker