Hi,

I solved the OSX Authentication issue; I'm now reliably able to get authenticated using the Password Server with PAM with:

# login: auth account password session auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth required pam_deny.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_deny.so session required pam_permit.so

As the /etc/pam.d/imap

Anyway -- new problem. With Apple's Mail.app and how it wants to download messages into it's cache, I've found that there's a problematic interaction between Dovecot and Mail.app -- but pinning down exactly what and where is proving to be a hassle.

I was running Courier-Imap with Mail.app, and that worked without incident (however, the courier-imap server was on Linux, not OSX Server, that will not work (yet) with osx-server).

If I use Entourage and Dovecot, it works fine.

The primary symptom is that as it downloads messages Mail.app just hangs; no response, the session just freezes. Usually it's when the status bar is saying something akin to "Caching 9 of 506" at which point it stops. The number varies, but it's always in the first couple of dozen. Messages are small, so it's not that it's hanging on a large mail download. I eventually have to forcibly kill Mail.app.

The log says nothing of use:

dovecot: Mar 07 17:31:23 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Mar 07 16:32:50 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] imap-login: Mar 07 16:33:46 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] imap-login: Mar 07 16:35:38 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21]

But perhaps there's a more verbose option somewhere.

Thoughts?

Scott