 no i was just a little confused because i m running procmail on a gateway and sits between the external sendmail box and internal exchange bridgehead server so there isn t any delivery to the local system the only email it gets is inbound at the moment and we re looking to get rid of complication and go back to two boxes i did a test which looked like you guys are right about procmail but testing is very limited due to the config i currently have it s just confusing when set up as a gateway jason original message from stephane lentz mailto stephane lentz ansf alcatel fr sent monday september NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm to spamassassin talk URL subject re satalk separate inbound and outbound on mon sep NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERpm NUMBER jason qualkenbush wrote is there is way to separate inbound and outbound email so that i only check for spam on inbound mail and ignore the outbound i m using sendmail and running procmail on the gateway to call spamassassin i know it more of a sendmail question but my google searches have only turned up people trying to log all inbound and outbound email using procmail spamassassin doesn t get called for outgoing email messages sent to other machines procmail local delivery agent inbound traffic to local machine sl stephane lentz alcanet international internet services this URL email is sponsored by thinkgeek welcome to geek heaven URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL this URL email is sponsored by thinkgeek welcome to geek heaven URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 