I have set up dovecot to use ldap authentication, but it only results in dovecot crashing without any error message that would indicate why this is the case.

I have spent *many* hours trying to fix this problem, but not found any solution as to why it should crash.

maillog: Aug 15 10:05:08 era dovecot: Dovecot starting up Aug 15 10:05:09 era dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Aug 15 10:05:09 era dovecot: child 20833 (auth) killed with signal 11 Aug 15 10:05:09 era imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

Settings to indicate ldap in dovecot.conf: auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf

Basically, the settings in dovecot-ldap.conf is:

hosts = localhost:389 dn = cn=dovecot,ou=servers,dc=remiss,dc=org dnpass = nada base = dc=remiss,dc=org deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword

using ldapsearch -x -D "cn=dovecot,ou=servers,dc=remiss,dc=org" -w nada .... is successful.

Therefor I am wondering what in the world that causes "Auth process" to die too early.

Output of strace -f dovecot -F is available from http://remiss.org/download/log

Pid of auth-process here is 23286.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Roger.