[Dovecot] LMTP error

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri May 2 10:02:15 UTC 2014


On 5/1/2014 7:17 PM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:
> This setting:
>
>> first_valid_uid = 1010
>
> will need to be changed to "0",

Worst ...  advice ...  ever.

Please do NOT EVER suggest to anyone else to EVER do that.

> or better yet, as others have suggested,
> alias root to some user with UID within 1010..1020.

This is one of the very *first* things that you should do on pretty much 
*any* new server setup.

I guess maybe there are one or more valid corner cases where you 
wouldn't want to do this, but I can't think of any (good) ones...

Charles



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