I do not believe that is an issue. It only puts the bayes databases at ~/.spammer_toks and ~/.spammer_seen. sa-learn has not had a problem loading the databases. They have grown everytime I have used it. I can't see why spamd would have a problem with it.
Fair enough. Like I said, it's a syntax error if a directory named ~/.spammer/ exists. However, if it doesn't exist, it's fine.
Are you sure spamc is being invoked as the proper user, and not as root?
spamd will fall back to "nobody" if it finds itself still running as root after setuiding to the client user. You could try copying a set of files into the path of nobody's home-dir and see if bayes starts running.
