On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:13:39PM -0500, Paul Aviles wrote:
> OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --username spamd --helper-home-dir
> ${SAHOME} -s /var/log/spamd.log"

You're running spamd as a non-root user,

> Mon Feb 26 10:44:40 2007 [16531] info: spamd: creating default_prefs:
> /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs

and then calling spamc as root.  Thereby, spamd tries to do things for the
root user, and fails, due to lack of permissions.

> I do get the email in my mailbox, but why is it referring to root?

If you're running spamd as non-root, you probably want to disable per-user
configs and databases.

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