dovecot - Mar 2012 - need simpler directions on 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
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El 01/03/12 01:54, David Benfell escribi?:
> 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
If you give us some information maybe we could help you. At least, we 
need the output of doveadm config -n and the relevant log lines.