[Dovecot] Dovecot Problem

[Robert Sloan]

I am getting the following error in the mail.err log

pam_start() failed: Critical error - immediate abort

This is with an IMAP connection.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Robert Sloan wrote:
>
>> Every 2 or 3 days dovecot will not allow me to log into my IMAP 
>> server.  It keeps requesting my username and password.  If I do a 
>> /etc/init.d/dovecot restart it will start working again for a few 
>> days.  I have dovecot set up to use Maildir.
>
> Set auth_debug=yes and look at what the logs say when it re-requests 
> the password.