[Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot

[Paul A. Novojeeloff]

OS FreeBSD 4.4, Dovecot 0.99.13 

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From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org]
On Behalf Of Curtis Maloney
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:06 AM
To: Paul A. Novojeeloff
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot


Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm trying the Dovecot as IMAP server, so I have one problem: I can 
> log in to server, but nothing appears in mailclient and following 
> message appears in log:
> imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group 
> privileges
> dovecot: Feb 08 20:36:34 Error: child 21356 (imap) returned error 89
> 
> What could be wrong?
> Thanks for your answer.

Which version of Dovecot are you running?  And on which OS?
I had the same error when trying to do so with versions after about
1.0test51 
on my Solaris 9 server at home.

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Curtis Maloney
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