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
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/spamassassi n/README. spamd.gz for further info