On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:44:25 +0200
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

> >> On 15.04.18 20:04, RW wrote:  
> >> >All setting bayes_path buys you here is the ability to run
> >> >sa-learn and spamassassin as root, something you should *never*
> >> >do anyway.  
> 
> >On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:55:13 +0200
> >Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:  
> >> it's the only way to use per-user settings and bayes DB on system
> >> with unix users.  
> 
> On 17.04.18 13:43, RW wrote:
> >spamd does, but not sa-learn or spamassassin.  
> 
> sa-learn and spamassassin use current user. this way people can use
> either, but spamd is most effective

I'm not sure what you trying to say here. My original point was that
sa-learn and spamassassin  shouldn't be run as root (to access global
databases owned by the unprivileged user running spamd). 

spamd is different because it never processes the contents of an email
as root.

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