[Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote:
> 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
>
OK - I did the check, which returned

dovecot --build-options
Build options: ioloop=poll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl
SQL drivers: mysql
Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql
Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file sql static

so it has to be my config file.  I'll try again to read up on this, but I'll 
be glad of any help available.

Anne
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