Fetchmail as root

Ah. Maybe I sent that off too quickly. The exact wording is: The system-wide fetchmail daemon can be run either as root or as an unprivileged user 'fetchmail'. You should only run it as root if you will need to deliver mail directly from fetchmail to a MDA (unsafe, and not done by default in Debian), or if a plugin or preconnect line needs it. Since I am using procmail, which I think is an MDA, this would make sense. But the question about why Debian thinks it's unsafe still remains. I guess I'm just trying to find out what risk I've accepted by doing it! Thanks again in advance. nick