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[Spamassassin Wiki] Update of "BetterDocumentation/SpamdReadme" by MrElvey
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http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SpamdReadme

The comment on the change is:
OS X UID bug squashed?

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+ NEW: Presumably the following bug has been fixed, since I'm running OS X Server v.10.4
+ with SpamAssassin and it appears to support DCC (use_dcc is 1 in local.cf).
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- There is an issue if you run spamd using the standard perl installation
+ There is/was an issue if you run spamd using the standard perl installation
on Mac OS X and certain *BSD-flavored UNIX platforms. spamd will change
effective uid to the user calling spamd for security reasons. Before
calling out to any external programs (DCC and Pyzor, as of 3.0.0,) spamd