running dovecot under different user

[Marc Roos]

Unless you run with linux capability net_bind_service. But I just found 
this page[1] maybe those user options help.

[1]
https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless


-----Original Message-----
From: Benny Pedersen via dovecot [mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org] 
Sent: maandag 2 december 2019 20:21
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: running dovecot under different user

On 2019-12-02 20:08, Marc Roos via dovecot wrote:
> Did anyone ever managed to run dovecot as a non-root user?

basic: all ports below 1024 need to be setup from root unix system user

so yes dovecot can run non rooted if all binded ports is over 1023

if thats practical