on Mon Jan 18 2016, Timo Sirainen <tss-AT-iki.fi> wrote: > 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
Thanks; that's wonderful! You think of everything :-)
