On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 00:08 +0200, J. Erik Heinz wrote:
imap(jerik): Apr 02 19:38:03 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
What Dovecot version and operating system? At least one reason for this was fixed in later Dovecot versions..
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.
The error message happens because jerik user is in wheel/root group and Dovecot wasn't able to drop it. You could also allow that group by setting:
first_valid_gid = 1
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?
Dovecot uses it internally. It should start as root.