diff --git a/mail/milter-regex/Makefile b/mail/milter-regex/Makefile
index 97185ab81a4e..fc387d257e4e 100644
--- a/mail/milter-regex/Makefile
+++ b/mail/milter-regex/Makefile
@@ -1,43 +1,44 @@
 PORTNAME=	milter-regex
 PORTVERSION=	2.7
 PORTREVISION=	3
 CATEGORIES=	mail
 MASTER_SITES=	https://www.benzedrine.ch/
 
 MAINTAINER=	dinoex@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Milter plugin to sendmail for regular expression filtering
 WWW=		https://www.benzedrine.ch/milter-regex.html
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${FILESDIR}/COPYRIGHT
 
 USE_RC_SUBR=	milterregex
 SUB_LIST=	SPOOLDIR=${SPOOLDIR}
-PLIST_SUB=	SPOOLDIR=${SPOOLDIR}
+PLIST_SUB=	MAILUSER=${MAILUSER} MAILGROUP=${MAILGROUP} SPOOLDIR=${SPOOLDIR}
 
 MAILUSER?=	mailnull
+MAILGROUP?=	mail
 SPOOLDIR?=	/var/run/milter-regex
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .include "${PORTSDIR}/mail/sendmail/bsd.milter.mk"
 
 post-patch:
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 	    "s:/etc/milter-regex.conf:${PREFIX}/etc/milter-regex.conf:g; \
 	    s:/var/spool/milter-regex:${SPOOLDIR}:g; \
 	    s:_milter-regex:${MAILUSER}:g;" ${WRKSRC}/milter-regex.c
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 	    "s:/etc/milter-regex.conf:${PREFIX}/etc/milter-regex.conf:g; \
 	    s:/var/spool/milter-regex:${SPOOLDIR}:g; \
 	    s:mailstats 1:mailstats 8:;" ${WRKSRC}/milter-regex.8
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e "s:-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/include::g; \
 	    s:-L/usr/local/lib:-L${LOCALBASE}/lib:g; \
 	    s/-Werror//g"  ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
 
 do-install:
 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/milter-regex ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/libexec/
 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/milter-regex.8 ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/man8/
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${SPOOLDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/mail/milter-regex/pkg-plist b/mail/milter-regex/pkg-plist
index 5c09266ac9de..53908fff88ae 100644
--- a/mail/milter-regex/pkg-plist
+++ b/mail/milter-regex/pkg-plist
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 libexec/milter-regex
 share/man/man8/milter-regex.8.gz
-@dir(mailnull,mail,750) %%SPOOLDIR%%
+@dir(%%MAILUSER%%,%%MAILGROUP%%,750) %%SPOOLDIR%%