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I am attempting to login to my IMAP Dovecot server on my Amazon EC2 instance. I am attempting to login as root and I recieve this error in the mail log:

dovecot: imap: Error: user root: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb returned 0 as uid

What should I do? Thanks.

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Don't login to IMAP as root ($10 says you're not using TLS either, so your root password just went across the Internet en-clair). Redirect mail destined for the root account to a non-privileged account, collect the mail from that account, change your root password, and setup TLS.

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I figured using root for login would not be a good idea. I am trying to setup the mail handling for the user "postmaster" now which I assume is the default account postfix creates. Have no idea how to setup TLS. – john Jul 19 '11 at 0:53
I can't get postfix to receive mail as a different user other than "root". In the alias file I changed the email alias to "postmaster". I reloading postfix but it still continues to use root@mydomain.com instead of postmaster@mydomain.com – john Jul 19 '11 at 1:12
If you don't know how to do something like setup TLS, ask a question on Server Fault. Did you run newaliases after you edited /etc/aliases? Also, postmaster is a "role account" too; you should feed that to a real user account as well. – womble Jul 19 '11 at 1:17
Yes I ran newaliases. Should I not use postmaster and make another account? I don't know why it keeps sending to root – john Jul 19 '11 at 1:20
You should already have a regular account on the system for you to use; redirect all the mail to that. Please don't ask extended questions in comments; reformulate your question into something comprehensive and answerable and ask it as a new question. – womble Jul 19 '11 at 1:21
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