This is a brief guide to configuring SpamAssassin using a preinstalled version.

         SpamAssassin is temporarily installed in /home/chris/spamassassin .

         for a user named catuser, do the following.
         (1) if you don't have a file in your home dir called .procmailrc create one and
         include the following lines of code:

         #-------  code begins   --------
         VERBOSE=on
         MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
         LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
         DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

         :0fw
         | /home/chris/spamassassin/spamassassin -P -c /home/chris/spamassassin/rules
         #-------  code ends  -----------

         if you do already have .procmailrc set up, you only need to include the last two
         lines above, prior to existing procmail rules.
         (2) create a file called .qmail in your home dir (or add this line to an
         existing file)

         | preline procmail

         (3) this configuration will just flag spam by changing the Subject field of
         messages. for further info see the README file in the SpamAssassin dir or try
         spamassassin.org .

         chris (at) cat.org.au