I'm having trouble configuring spamassassin version 3.0.2 running on Perl version 5.8.4. I'm runing Ubuntu Linux 5.04 (Hoary). I'm using Dovecot version 0.99.13 and Postfix version 2.1.5-9. I also have Squirrelmail version 1.4.4. All of this is installed and appears to be working properly - except for spamassassin.
I have configured Dovecot to use the MailDIR method of mail storage rather than Mailbox. I wonder if this method of mail storage is making it difficult to make spamassassin work. I envoke spamassassin via my user .procmailrc file, which I copied from /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/examples/procmailrc.example. I tested it by manually envoking spamassassin with the sample-spam.txt and sample-nonspam.txt files and they both seem to be processed correctly. Then I emailed the GTUBE string to myself (from an outside account), but spamassassin failed to process it and it was delivered without any problem. I tried using the suggested .forward file. This broke my email (caused all incoming email to be sent to /var/mail rather than Dovecot). I did note that the emails in /var/mail were apparently processed by spamassassin. After searching the web, I see that the .forward file is not needed in Linux (because Linux automatically looks for .procmailrc). So I'm confused whether or not the .forward file should be there (and what it does). I don't have a good understanding of how mail moves from postfix to Dovecot and how it should get from postfix to procmail to spamassassin to Dovecot. My only idea at this point is to reconfigure Dovecot to use the Mbox method and retry configuring procmail/spamassassin. I'm hoping somebody will have a suggestion. Mark
