[Dovecot] root privilidge issues?

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hi all,

i am migrating from imap-uw to dovecot on a freebsd machine
and i am getting this error message:

imap(phil): Oct 22 19:24:01 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
imap-login: Oct 22 19:24:01 Info: Login: phil [220.240.217.2]
dovecot: Oct 22 19:24:01 Error: child 1019 (imap) returned error 89

when it trie manually logining in this is what i see

telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK dovecot ready.
1 login phil password
1 OK Logged in.
Connection closed by foreign host.

any ideas?

thansk in advance

phil