[Dovecot] Dovecot Problem

[Timo Sirainen]

Set this to non-zero:

# Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process.  
This may
# be useful if PAM plugins leak memory.
#auth_worker_max_request_count = 0

On Jun 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Robert Sloan wrote:

> 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.
>