[Dovecot] Dovecot Problem
Robert Sloan
robert at rsloan.com
Wed Jun 24 17:29:02 EEST 2009
I am getting the following error in the mail.err log
pam_start() failed: Critical error - immediate abort
This is with an IMAP connection.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Robert Sloan wrote:
>
>> Every 2 or 3 days dovecot will not allow me to log into my IMAP
>> server. It keeps requesting my username and password. If I do a
>> /etc/init.d/dovecot restart it will start working again for a few
>> days. I have dovecot set up to use Maildir.
>
> Set auth_debug=yes and look at what the logs say when it re-requests
> the password.
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