[Dovecot] FreeBSD - dovecot: We couldn't drop root group privileges

[Igor B. Bykhalo]

Hi,
I installed Dovecot on FreeBSD 4-STABLE machine
and have a problem.

MTA is postfix delivering to ~/Maildir, runs perfectly.

Dovecot is configured to use plaintext auth, config file
is at the end of this mail.

When trying to get mail via IMAP, I'm getting the following
errors:

/var/log/dovecot.log

> Aug 24 12:00:35 Info: Dovecot starting up
> Aug 24 12:00:51 Info: Login: goshik [193.233.44.234] 

/var/log/maillog

> Aug 24 12:00:51 banka dovecot: We couldn't drop root group privileges
> Aug 24 12:00:51 banka imap(goshik): child 2045 (imap) returned error 89

Am I missing something? What was done incorrectly?

Help please,
Igor

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/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf

> ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file
>
> #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
>
> protocols = imap pop3
> imap_listen = 193.233.44.213
> pop3_listen = 193.233.44.213
> ssl_disable = yes
>
> #disable_plaintext_auth = no
>
> #log_path =
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login
> #login_chroot = yes
>
> login = imap
> login_user = dovecot
>
> login = pop3
>
> #max_mail_processes = 1024
> verbose_proctitle = yes
> #verbose_ssl = no
> #first_valid_uid = 500
> #last_valid_uid = 0
> first_valid_gid = 0
> #last_valid_gid = 0
> 
> valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail
> #mail_chroot = 
> 
> default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir
> 
> #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart
> #mail_never_cache_fields = 
> 
> client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls
> 
> #mail_full_filesystem_access = no
> #mail_max_flag_length = 50
> #mail_save_crlf = no
> #mail_read_mmaped = no
> 
> #maildir_stat_dirs = no
> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
> #maildir_check_content_changes = no
> 
> #umask = 0077
> 
> mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no
> 
> #imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> #imap_process_size = 256
> #imap_use_modules = no
> #imap_modules = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
> 
> #pop3_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> #pop3_process_size = 256
> #pop3_use_modules = no
> #pop3_modules = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
> 
> auth = default
> auth_mechanisms = plain
> #auth_realms =
> #auth_default_realm = 
> auth_userdb = passwd
> auth_passdb = passwd
> #auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
> #auth_process_size = 256
> auth_user = root
> #auth_chroot = 
> #auth_count = 1
> #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@
> #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous
> auth_verbose = yes
> 
> #auth = digest_md5
> #auth_methods = digest-md5
> #auth_realms = 
> #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
> #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
> #auth_user = imapauth
> #auth_chroot =