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@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ This script builds dovecot with support for SSL. As such, you must have
openssl installed - openssl-solibs is not enough in itself to meet this
requirement. Additionally, dovecot will be compiled with POP3 support.
-You should create a dovecot user to run the login processes on your server.
-Something like this should work:
+You should create users and groups for dovecot and dovenull to run the
+login processes on your server. Something like this should work:
[root@host] # groupadd -g 202 dovecot
[root@host] # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 202 -g 202 dovecot
+[root@host] # groupadd -g 248 dovenull
+[root@host] # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 248 -g 248 dovenull
From the dovecot-new release posting comes this word of advice:
Remember to read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 before