How to remove spamassassin from amavisd

Stephen Davies sdavies at sdc.com.au
Tue Dec 16 11:30:01 CET 2025


On 16/12/25 20:54, Damian wrote:
>> 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 = ();
>>

There is no such entry in amavisd.conf.
The closest is @av_scanners but that is needed to define bogofilter and 
clamd.




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