diff --git a/profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dovecot b/profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dovecot
index 5f4e0a756..86797c6a3 100644
--- a/profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dovecot
+++ b/profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dovecot
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   capability net_bind_service,
   capability setuid,
   capability sys_chroot,
+  capability sys_resource,
 
   /etc/dovecot/** r,
   /etc/mtab r,