How to remove spamassassin from amavisd

Damian amavis at arcsin.de
Tue Dec 16 11:24:59 CET 2025


> There is no mention that I can find in my amavisd configuration of 
> spamassassin but my mail log is full of messages like:
> Dec 13 16:30:16 mustang amavis[178016]: initializing 
> Mail::SpamAssassin (0)
> Dec 13 16:30:18 mustang amavis[178016]: SpamControl: init_pre_fork on 
> SpamAssassin done
> Dec 13 16:30:18 mustang amavis[178016]: extra modules loaded after 
> daemonizing/chrooting: Mail/DKIM/ARC/MessageSignature.pm, 
> Mail/DKIM/ARC/Seal.pm, Mail/DKIM/ARC/Verifier.pm, 
> Mail/SpamAssassin/Logger/Amavislog.pm, 
> Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DMARC.pm, 
> Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/FreeMail.pm, 
> Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/HashBL.pm, 
> Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/SpamCop.pm, 
> Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/WelcomeListSubject.pm, Net/Cmd.pm, 
> Net/Config.pm, Net/SMTP.pm
>
> How can I stop this?
>
You could try to override the default @spam_scanners setting, e.g. with

> @spam_scanners = ();
>
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