On 2025-06-11 10:06:03 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> There's a difference between running spamassassin as root versus running
> spamd as root.  Spamd runs as root so that it can setuid to the
> individual users receiving the incoming mail.  This is necessary in
> order to support per-user configuration, bayes databases, etc. in
> ~/.spamassassin.

It creates files in the root account, so this is clearly broken!

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