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Comment: Added small note about Postfix integration.

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Note that this exact method of invoking [SpamAssassin] is not very robust. Should spamc for some reason fail to start, Postfix will start bouncing mail. A more robust but also more I/O-intensive solution is the one proposed in the \[http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html FILTER_README file\] that comes with the Postfix distribution.

Only mail received by SMTP will be scanned with this method, i.e. mail injected with sendmail(1) will not be fed to SpamAssassin.

Alternatively, a more complex scheme is to integrate it using Amavis, as described in IntegratedInPostfixWithAmavis.

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