On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 16:34 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, Timo - from mail.warn log file, domain name redacted: > > Aug 24 16:32:07 debian dovecot: imap([email protected]): Error: user > [email protected]: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access for users with > UID 89 not permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file, uid from userdb > lookup).
OK, so it is the first_valid_uid that's the problem.. In your previous doveconf -n output you didn't have first_valid_uid set at all, which defaults to 500. So: set first_valid_uid=89, verify that doveconf -n shows it in its output, and check if the error message changes.
