[Dovecot] Dovecot PAM sessions with Maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 6 23:18:04 EEST 2008


On Aug 6, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Sean Smitz wrote:

> I able to connect to the mail server with a MUA (Thunderbird) via  
> SSL prior to attempting to set up the session and Maildir options
..
> Aug  5 23:14:53 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): pam([me],::ffff: 
> [client]): pam_open_session() failed: Cannot make/remove an entry  
> for the specified session

Why do you need to open the session? That's clearly the reason why  
it's failing. But I've no idea why, and I doubt there's anything on  
Dovecot's side you can do to fix it (other than disabling the  
session=yes of course).

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