I am able to make this all work in one go in 3rd VPS
https://wiki.centos-webpanel.com/how-to-configure-spamassassin is what I followed with the following additional things
1. edit /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin had some code. Replaced that with
SAHOME="/var/lib/spamassassin/"
SPAMDOPTIONS="-c -m5 -u nobody -s ${SAHOME}spamd.log"
2. Used
systemctl daemon-reload
with
sa-update
systemctl restart postfix spamassassin
3.
nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/spamassassin.service
Added
StartLimitBurst=0
in last line of [Service] block as suggested here earlier
systemctl daemon-reload
The email with content
XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X
went to Junk folder
Thanks all for the support
systemctl daemon-reload