dovecot - Mar 2012 - need simpler instructions for user authentication

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

On 1.3.2012, at 3.40, David Benfell wrote:
> 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)."
You're missing userdb.
> 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?
You didn't say what Dovecot version, and dovecot -n output would have been
useful, but here's my guess: Add to dovecot.conf:

userdb {
  driver = passwd
}