Hi,
I just installed dovecot. The installation went well and i configured dovecot to user ~/Maildir. When I tested imap via telnet the login work, but right after that the connection is cutted: Trying 192.168.0.14... Connected to op. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login jerik password . OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And the log says: dovecot: Apr 02 19:37:18 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Apr 02 19:38:03 Info: Login: jerik [192.168.0.23] imap(jerik): Apr 02 19:38:03 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges dovecot: Apr 02 19:38:04 Error: child 15194 (imap) returned error 89 So the problem is that dovecot "could't drop root group". I started dovecot with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot.sh through the user root. The privilegs of the file are: ls -l dovecot.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 459 2 Apr 19:03 dovecot.sh the /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf has the following entries. protocols = imap ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login = imap login_user = dovecot login = pop3 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_gid = 0 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes If I understand the dovecot.conf wright, the is the user root required for running dovecot "auth_user = root". That's why I don't understand the erros message.
By the way, through the installation there was the user and group dovecot created, should this user start dovecot at boottime? Or should he be used for other tasks?
Regards Erik
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