diff --git a/acct-user/dovecot/dovecot-0.ebuild b/acct-user/dovecot/dovecot-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit acct-user
+
+DESCRIPTION="user for dovecot daemon"
+ACCT_USER_ID=76
+ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( dovecot )
+
+acct-user_add_deps
diff --git a/acct-user/dovecot/metadata.xml b/acct-user/dovecot/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>eras@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Eray Aslan</name>
+  </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>