You should probably disable chrooting for login services if you are running as non-root...
service imap-login { chroot = } Aki On 11.11.2019 14.59, Marc Roos via dovecot wrote: > I am testing a bit with the proxy, and trying to run dovecot as a normal > user. (with cap bind_service). I was wondering what the minimum > configuration is for running like a proxy. > > I am now getting issues like unable to chown on /var/dovecot/login, but > I do not need this in such a setup do I? > > passdb { > driver = static > args = proxy=y host=192.168.11.10 nopassword=y > } > > >