[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails

Hi,

I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.

The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):

dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down

Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:

/etc/init.d/dovecot start

works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.

I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.