On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Henry Kwan wrote:

> I was checking on some rule changes that I made to my SA box and noticed that 
> I
> had misconfigured my /etc/procmailrc by not including "DROPPRIVS=yes" so spamd
> was running as root.

erm. Are you sure you're running spam*D* from procmail? That's not
correct. Either you run spamd as root as a system service and run
spam*C* (the client) from procmail, or you run spamassassin from
procmail and don't run spamd at all...

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