Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 20:07 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote:

dovecot: imap(foo): Error: user foo: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root passdb { args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file }

You don't have a userdb defined or mail_uid/mail_gid setting..

# cat /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd foo:{CRYPT}xxx:1000:1000:Foo Backup:/home/foo:/bin/bash

I guess you should add:

userdb { args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file }

The error message is bad though. I'm pretty sure it was better in v1.2. I'll see about fixing that.