If you read the docs that SuSE puts in /usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin, I think you'll find that they have you doing some weird things. I've been beating on this all afternoon, and I think I have a better way of dealing with this. The SuSE-recommended method has postfix calling procmail as an argument to smtpd. I don't really understand the handoff here, and I can't find any reference to how these are constructed. It may be a better way, but here's the problem *I* have with it. Once handed off to procmail, procmail reads the system-wide rc file (/etc/procmailrc). An example one is given in the SuSE docs. That example has it pass the mail through spamassassin, and then deliver via a hard sendmail command. The net net of this procedure is that you have a spamassassin-tagged email in your user mailbox. Period. There can be no futher user-defined procmail or spamassassin filtering. I tried commenting out the procmailrc stuff about sendmail, but this wouldn't deliver mail. So I had to do something else. What I did is go back to the "old" way, the default way that spamassassin would have you do it. I added "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail" to /etc/postfix/main.cf. This hands off processing to procmail like before, but it does it differently enough such that I can comment out the other half of the procmailrc file. After tagging, system-wide, by spamassassin, it gets subjected to normal user mangling through ~/.procmailrc files. The other thing is that -- I guess, because I haven't tried -- but from what I read... If you were to use spamc instead of spamassassin in the system-wide procmailrc file, you would allow users to invoke their own ~/.spamassassin files as well. I'm just a fan of procmail, because local users could pass their local procmail handling off to spamassassin again in their local procmailrc files. Have I type "procmail" enough times yet? Hope this helps someone else. Regards, dk -- David "Dunkirk" Krider, http://www.davidkrider.com Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." Linux: Will you use the power for good... or for AWESOME?