Spamassassin+postfix+procmail mini howto Get spamassassin installed, the docs on their site are good enough, just install it via CPAN get spamd running Make sure /usr/bin/procmail is still suid root. I recommend upgrading to the latest version available. In your postfix config put: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail Add an alias, root->youruser, if you havn't already(BAD! *SLAP*) Restart postfix. Make sure mail is still deliverable. In /etc/procmailrc put: :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc Optionaly, if you have users that are not capible of editing their .procmailrc or setting up header-based filters in their MUA, you can add: :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes /dev/null To send anything SA thinks is spam to /dev/null. I do not recommend this. Make sure mail is still deliverable. Read the headers, it should now have an X-Spam-Status: header in there somewhere. That's it.