[Dovecot] root privilidge issues?

[Sergey Matveychuk]

lists at netxp.com.au wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> i am migrating from imap-uw to dovecot on a freebsd machine
> and i am getting this error message:
> 
> imap(phil): Oct 22 19:24:01 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
> imap-login: Oct 22 19:24:01 Info: Login: phil [220.240.217.2]
> dovecot: Oct 22 19:24:01 Error: child 1019 (imap) returned error 89

You're in root (wheel) group with gid=0.
Change it in passwd file to any other gid and add yourself in wheel 
group in /etc/group file.

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