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Another reason inc has to be setuid is if you use the RPOP protocol,
which requires the program doing the mail retrieval to bind to a
reserved port.  Only the superuser can bind to a reserved port (which
is, after all, why it's called "reserved" :-), so inc has to run as
root.

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