[Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location
> > > > setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try
> > > > prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
> > >
> > > ..
> > >
> > > > I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference.
> > >
> > > That should fix it. Did you forget to restart Dovecot? Or did you check
> > > if the error message had changed?
> >
> > You're right, of course - I had forgotten to restart.  However, now I
> > have
> >
> > telnet localhost 143
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> That means Dovecot didn't start. It most likely wrote an error message
> to logs.

[root at david program]# service dovecot status
dovecot dead but subsys locked

Hmm -

dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:47 Warning: Killed with signal 15
dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down
dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb 
driver '/etc/passwd' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? 
Check with dovecot --build-options)
dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: child 30279 (auth) returned error 89

It's 10pm here, and I've wrestled with this most of the day.  I'll be back to 
it in the morning, but I'm really tired now, and the brain is seizing up. :-)
 Any help you can give, I'll follow it up and report back.  Thanks

Anne

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