How to verify SA options being used by spamc from remote host

[Geoff Varney <ge...@ridge.k12.wa.us>]

Hi,
I am using SpamAssassin in a way I believe is different from most users.
I have an IMail server (Windows 2003) which uses Declude JunkMail and a spamc 
client (spamc32) to connect to a spamd server on my Redhat FC3 box.  It is 
working well in that I am getting spam reported by SA when invoking the 
spamc32 client from JunkMail.  However, I am not certain that it is working 
altogether the way it should.  I have trainied SA with both SPAM and HAM 
(several hundred SPAMs at least and a few hundred HAMs) but wonder how I can 
be CERTAIN that spamc32 is actually using the bayes database.

Maybe someone can tell me if this makes any sense at all:
I create an email message and send it to a recipient and it is scanned by SA 
and found clean with a particular score.  If I then feed that to sa-learn as 
SPAM and then resend the same message again, should it NECESSARILY have a 
different score, or is bayes looking at some many different things that it 
COULD score the same?  In my test it scored the same.

Here's how I am set up:

I start spamd with a -u spamd user.  When I run spamc32 I also run as this 
user.  I don't believe the user piece is necessary in my case, I see no 
difference when I use it vs. not.

I am trying to use a global setup, so all prefs are in the local.cf.  There is 
also a user.prefs file in /root/.spamassassin, which is also where the bayes 
db is.  Running spamassassin --lint -D does report it's using those 
locations.  If it would help I can provide the whole output of that.

I also don't see any additional info such as a header rewrite when a message 
scores 5 or more.  Is this something that won't happen due to the way I'm 
using SA?

I'm just not sure how I can verify what my spamc client is doing with spamd.  
Is it doing the basic default SA stuff and none of the stuff in my local.cf 
somehow?

More info:

SA version 3.0.4

local.cf:

rewrite_header subject         *****SPAM*****
report_safe             0
use_bayes               1
bayes_path /root/.spamassassin
bayes_auto_learn              0
skip_rbl_checks         0
use_razor2              0
use_dcc                 0
use_pyzor               0
ok_languages            all
ok_locales              all


Thanks for any suggestions.

Geoff