On 10/16/2014 12:19 PM, Cliff Hayes wrote:

well i don't want to use system users. but how do I assign a UID and GID to virtual users to eliminate the permissions errors?

For dovecot, it is like this: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL#User_database_lookups

I don't know if this would be OK with your sendmail side.

You should really post your complete dovecot config (dovecot -n output + any ".ext" files) so that we can get a better picture.