Howto run xmail as non-root

Hi,
how can I run xmail as non-root user?
My envirnoment is Debian Linux v6 (squeeze).

As root I added a system user named xmail w/o home dir, did
chown -R xmail.xmail /var/MailRoot
and tried to start xmail as follows (via /etc/init.d/xmail),
but it doesn't create the pid file, so the script waits endlessly...:

....
start_daemon()
{
     if [ -f $PID_FILE ]
     then
        stop_daemon
     fi

     # set env vars:
     MAIL_ROOT=$XMAIL_ROOT
     export MAIL_ROOT
     MAIL_CMD_LINE=$XMAIL_CMD_LINE
     export MAIL_CMD_LINE
     
     # this isn't working, why?
     XMAIL_PID_DIR=/tmp
     export XMAIL_PID_DIR

     start-stop-daemon --start --chuid xmail:xmail --exec $DAEMON
   
     while [ ! -f $XMAIL_PID_DIR/XMail.pid ]
     do
        echo -n "."
        sleep 1
     done
     echo ""
}
....

How to fix this, or what else is needed?

Thx
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