Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Problem

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:

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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.