[Dovecot] need simpler directions on user authentication

[Joseba Torre]

El 01/03/12 01:54, David Benfell escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> My situation is this: I have postfix running on a Linode under Arch
> Linux. A recent upgrade to dovecot broke the configuration. Now I get
> "Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)."
>
> I do not want virtual users. I do not particularly want SQL or LDAP. I
> do have multiple domains. I do use Maildir. I already have SSL
> certificates for the server which I did manage to get dovecot to quit
> complaining about.
>
> The documentation is driving me nuts. It keeps telling me about stuff I
> think I don't need. And I can't tell what I actually *do* need. All I
> want is for system users, including myself, to be able to get their mail.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> Thank you!
> David Benfell
> dbenfell at gmail.com

If you give us some information maybe we could help you. At least, we 
need the output of doveadm config -n and the relevant log lines.