----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Lee" <dlee@calldei.com> To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss@iki.fi>; <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:20 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working !

4. -- that was prety obvious, the log file told me what was going on. Its also somehwat documented. However 3) was a total mystery to me. All the debug log said even with full debugging was "Authentication Failed"

I had never used pam before (even after 25 years of unix programming ... ) and had absolutely no clue what to do. After looking through the source code for about an hour I found the function call it was using (pam_authenticate) and then about another hour looking through the worthless pam man pages and trying about a dozen things I finally guessed right and it worked.

I think a comment in the config or install notes would really really help out a beginner.

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:08 -0500, David A. Lee wrote:

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3. I had to create a "dovecot" service in my /etc/pam.d/ directory

4. had to add "mail" as an extra group to get write access to /var/mail .. Who would I send these notes to hopefully get these issues either fixed or documented ?

I don't know how I could anything about these. They're both site-specific settings, not everyone wants them. I could add a reminder about /etc/pam.d/dovecot to config file I suppose..