The configuration files for standard, site-wide, and user-specific settings are saved in different directories as follows:
Standard configuration settings are stored in
/usr/share/spamassassin/
Site-wide customizations and settings are stored in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/
User-specific settings are stored in
~/.spamassassin/
Standard configuration settings for SpamAssassin are contained in the files that SpamAssassin installs at /usr/share/spamassassin/
. This includes default settings for all SpamAssassin features and a set of standard rules and scores. Settings in this directory might be overridden when SpamAssassin is upgraded, so the files in this directory should not be modified.