Hi, I setup a configuration that will use sendmail with dovecot as imap/pop3 service and vpopmail as backend to handle virtual users and store email there. For this I created a dovecot.m4 as described in the wiki, it looks like: ######################*****############## ### DOVECOT Mailer specification ### ##################*****################## Mdovecot, P=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda, F=l59DFMPhnu, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, M=51200000, U=vpopmail:vchkpw, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $u Then I added to my .mc file: MAILER(dovecot) I added to my mailertable: dovecot.fechner.net dovecot:dovecot I create one entry in the virtusertable to catch a email and forward it to dovecot (all other email have to handled by another imap server till dovecot is running fine): dovecot at fechner.net idefix at dovecot.fechner.net I created a domain and a user in vpopmail to catch idefix at dovecot.fechner.net. If I execute: doveadm auth test idefix at dovecot.fechner.net Password: passdb: idefix at dovecot.fechner.net auth succeeded extra fields: user=idefix at dovecot.fechner.net So I think the first part is fine. But if I try to sent an email to dovecot at fechner.net I get the error message: Aug 14 21:48:34 anny dovecot: lda(idefix at dovecot.fechner.net): Fatal: setuid(89(vpopmail) from userdb lookup) failed with euid=1002(idefix): Operation not permitted (This binary should probably be called with process user set to 89(vpopmail) instead of 1002(idefix)) Aug 14 21:48:34 anny sendmail[94303]: s7EJXgma087740: to=<dovecot at fechner.net>, ctladdr=<idefix at anny.lostinspace.de> (1002/0), delay=00:14:52, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120389, relay=dovecot, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: dovecot mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL It seems to be a problem with dovecot-lda but I have no idea what is wrong. The user is set in the .m4 file and permission/group/user is set in the auth socket correctly. The output of doveconf -n is: # 2.2.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE amd64 zfs auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes first_valid_uid = 10 mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave duplicate namespace inbox { inbox = yes location mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix } passdb { args = cache_key=%u%r%l webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } service auth-worker { unix_listener auth-worker { group = vchkpw user = vpopmail } } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0666 user = vpopmail } user = vpopmail } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 22143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 22993 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 22110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 22995 } } userdb { args = quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } Thanks for any ideas who this could be fixed. Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook