Postfix and Spamassassin don't start on boot after Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade

Solved: The missing piece was

systemctl enable spamassassin.service

Ubuntu 16.04 uses systemd so you need to change your commands to the systemd versions. On systemd systems you use ...

systemctl COMMAND SERVICE

This to list all available services:

systemctl list-units --type=service --all

So for postfix that would be ...

systemctl start postfix.service

And logging is done with

journalctl -u postfix

Same applies for spamassassin.