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I'm trying to add new, custom rules to Spamassassin but, my rules are not being implemented. I added the rules to the local.cf file. Why are they not being seen?

There could be two reasons why this is happening:

1.) There is more than one local.cf in every SpamAssassin configuration. Be sure you are adding the rules to the correct one.

2.) SpamAssassin will process .cf files in alphabetical order. For example, if you have a bbb.cf and a local.cf, the bbb.cf will be seen by SpamAssassin first. Be sure there isn't something in the bbb.cf that will stop the processing of the local.cf.