[Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot

[Curtis Maloney]

Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm trying the Dovecot as IMAP server, so I have one problem: I can log
> in to server, but nothing appears in mailclient and following message
> appears in log:
> imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group
> privileges
> dovecot: Feb 08 20:36:34 Error: child 21356 (imap) returned error 89
> 
> What could be wrong?
> Thanks for your answer.

Which version of Dovecot are you running?  And on which OS?
I had the same error when trying to do so with versions after about 1.0test51 
on my Solaris 9 server at home.

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Curtis Maloney
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