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Help with SpamAssassin and procmail configuration

Asked by jplannett in Linux Administration

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I am somewhat new to linux but catching on quickly until this hitch.
we have an Exchange 5.5 with 50 users that receive tons of spam.
I am putting a RHEL 3 server to catch all spam using spamassassin to forward mail to exchange.
I have sendmail configured and working but when I test any emails from the command line in linux the email goes to exchange but does not appear to go through the spam filter.
I test by typing in
mail me@mycompany.com < spamtest.txt
the spamtest.txt is an email that outlook 2003 filter caught as junkmail.

How can I use the test spamassassin to make sure it is filtering the email and going through spamassassin or spamc?
I tried using -t in the etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
I changed the default
SPAMDOPTIONS=" -d -c -a"
to
SPAMDOPTIONS=" -t"
but then the spamassassin service does not restart

I would like to use try that first and then try sending spam through but at this point I am open to many suggestions.
I specified a /etc/procmail.rc file which has
# send mail through spamassassin
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc
I also tried the scripts from /etc/mail/spamassassin
spamassassin-default.rc
spamassassin-spamcc.rc (currrent)

my local.cf looks like
required_hits        5.0
rewrite_subject     1
subject_tag     *********<-SPAM->********
report_safe     0
use_terse_report    1
use_bayes     1
auto_leearn   1
sikip_rbl_checks   0
use_razor2    0
use_dcc   0
use_yzor  0
ok_languages   en
ok_locales   en


So in short, how do I make sure email is going from sendmail to spamassassin or spamc then to exchange?
in my sendmail.mc file I do have defined
define(`SMART_HOST',`myexchange.mydomain.com')

 
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