On 17 Jan 2016, at 23:19, Dave Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using dovecot as a local mail store on my laptop using preauth > tunneling. It turns out I almost don't even need to start dovecot at > all; the only reason it needs to be running is so that FTS indexing can > be invoked. And because I don't want it to run any services, I can run > it as an unprivileged user, so long as I turn them all off: > > # We don't want to serve any protocols, so we don't bind to any ports. > # We can run everything as me. > protocols = > default_login_user = dave > default_internal_user = dave > > The only thing is, I keep getting these in var/log/mail.log: > > anvil: Fatal: chroot(/Users/dave/brew/var/run/dovecot/empty) failed: > Operation not permitted > master: Error: service(anvil): command startup failed, throttling for 60 secs > auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF > > Any suggestions?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless
