One reason one might want to run spamd as root is that it allows spamc
to be called by multiple users, and have spamd change uid accordingly.
See /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.spamd.gz for further info

** Changed in: spamassassin (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: spamassassin (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  don't run as root by default

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