(Ah!) Thanks, Timo, that allows Squirrelmail to get access. :) I had been making changes to the files in /conf.d, not directly to dovecot.conf - confusing. :) I'm trying now to connect using Thunderbird and that's not working, but I'll dig into that for awhile before asking for further help.
Thanks kindly, --hobie > 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. > > >
