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<DIV>I am running a Fedora 5 system and I would like to setup dovecot as
IMAP only for the purpose of running squirrelmail. I
compiled and installed the source per the documentations but get
the following errors in my maillog at startup.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Nov 2 23:03:17 liberty dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc10
starting up<BR>Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot: Auth process died
too early - shutting down<BR>Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot:
auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built
without support for it<BR>? Check with dovecot
--build-options)<BR>Nov 2 23:10:43 liberty dovecot: child 12655
(auth) returned error 89<BR>Nov 2 23:10:43 liberty dovecot:
Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for
now</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Below is what I used to configure and install dovecot per the quick
configuration instructions.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>./configure</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>make</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>sudo make install</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>I created the dovecot user and group as shown below</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>/etc/passwd</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>dovecot:x:503:503::/home/dovecot:/bin/bash</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>/etc/group</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>dovecot:x:503:</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Created /etc/pam.d/dovecot</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>auth
required
system-auth<BR>account
required
system-auth</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? The documentation
said this was easy This is far from it. Any help is greatly
appreciated Additional info will be provided on request.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jaysen<BR></DIV></DIV>