trying to get spamassassin & maildrop to play together

[Richard Harding <rh...@msufame.msu.edu>]

I am trying to look at getting spamassassin 3.0 from the backport for 
Debian to work with maildrop and I am getting a bit confused. First I 
can't seem to get maildrop to read it's config file in /etc/maildroprc. 
I added the logfile "/var/log/maildrop" directive and created the 
logfile with the same permissions as the rest of the mail logs, but it 
won't write in it. Maildrop is working and set to be the mailbox_command 
in the postfix mail.cf.

I guess I need to get the maildroprc file working before any directives 
to use spamassassin in an xfilter would be helpful. Anyone have an idea 
why I can't get this file to be used and how best to set up spamassassin 
to mark up messages and place them in the users Spam folder in their 
maildir?

I currently have copied this from searching the mail archives:
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cat /etc/maildroprc
logfile "/var/log/maildrop"
VERBOSE="5"
log "========"

xfilter "/usr/bin/spamc -f"


if (    /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/                   \ # Watch out for header 
line added by Spamassassin.)
{
   log "------------------------------------------------------------- Spam
general. "
     to "Maildir/.Spam"
     #DELTAG=1
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the help.

Rick