SpamAssassin Problem

[sparek-3]

When I add:

header LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_SUBJECT Subject =~ /test/i
score LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_SUBJECT 10.0

To the ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file, spamassassin does not appear to read it. Doing the above, should mark any message that has test in the subject and score the message +10 for spam. This does not seem to happen. If you create a test account, and then send a message with test in the subject to that account, the LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_SUBJECT score will not be picked up. However, if you run spamassassin through the command line, it will:

spamassassin < inbox > out

where inbox is the inbox file that contains the test subject mail. If you read the out file, it will show the +10. Are there problems with Exim and SpamAssassin? I have tried restarting spamd after making the changes to no avail. Am I missing something else? Does anyone else have this problem?

[labdude]

I haven't run SA from the commandline, but I have had the same problem with userprefs rules being ignored at the server end. I made a post about that last week, but haven't had any replies yet.

Labdude

[sparek-3]

I talked with the support with SpamAssassin and they said that access to user created header scores was disabled by default. They did not recommend enabling it. There is a request to add a Subject Whitelist/Blacklist in later versions of SpamAssassin.