How to completely disable and turn off Spamassassin aka spamd on a cPanel server

Introduction

If you are using an external spam service and do not want the overhead that can come with spamd running on the server, it can be disabled.

Procedure

1. Access the server via WHM as the root user.
2. Navigate to "Home / Server Configuration / Tweak Settings"
3. Under the "Mail" tab, toggle the setting "Enable Apache SpamAssassin™ spam filter" to "Off."
4. Select "Save" to commit the changes to the Tweak Settings.
5. Navigate to "Home / Service Configuration / Service Manager"
6. Deselect the option to enable "Apache SpamAssassin™"
7. Select "Save" to commit the changes to the Service Manager