Hi !
It took me some time but I found a solution:
In "/etc/rc.d/rc5.d" I changed the start script number "S16dovecot" to "S21dovecot".
Now dovecot starts whitout problems ;-))
Greetings
A. Roye

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	[Dovecot] login process died too early
Date:	Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:25:00 +0200
From:	Adrian Roye <adro01@web.de>
Reply-To:	adro01@web.de
To:	Dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>

Hi !

I have dovecot working on a SUSE 9.0 machine.
Everything works fine. When I boot, I get this message:
snip.............
Dovecot starting up
Login process died too early-shutting down
snap...........
rcdovecot status : unused