On 6/12/06, My BSD MyBSD@comcast.net wrote:

The directory should have been "/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/".

However, when "user" and "group" are set to "9999" dovecot will not start with the following error log entries:

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dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: auth(default): User doesn't exist: 9999 dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: child 29585 (auth) returned error 89

cat /etc/passwd | grep 9999 if you don't see any output, then cat /etc/passwd | more and pick a different uid/gid to launch dovecot as ;-)