You should use sieve-test -u valid-username when running as root
---Aki TuomiDovecot oy -------- Original message --------From: Larry Rosenman <larry...@gmail.com> Date: 08/07/2018 13:36 (GMT+02:00) To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org> Subject: Re: New error message with Dovecot/Pigeonhole Can we get a doveconf -n please? I'm the FreeBSD port maintainer for both dovecot and pigeonhole. From: dovecot <dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org> on behalf of Jerry <je...@seibercom.net> Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 5:32:32 AM To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: New error message with Dovecot/Pigeonhole FreeBSD 11.1 / amd64 dovecot --version 2.3.2 (582970113) Pigeonhole version 0.5.2 (7704de5e) I have run 'sieve-test" many times to check out changes in my "sieve" scripts. This morning, it suddenly started issuing this error message: sieve-test(root): Fatal: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) I am not sure what is wrong or how to correct it, since it never happened before. -- Jerry "Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne"