dovecot - Mar 2005 - dovecot authentication problem on OSX

after reading good comments on dovecot i'm trying to get it going
I've got an apple g4, with osx 10.3.8

Compile and install went fine. I can also start dovecot, and telnet to
it...but I can't login
Even before I try to auth i get this in the log:
>>localhost dovecot: Dovecot starting up
>>localhost imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get
list of
authentication servers: Permission denied

I can't find any reference to this error message, and I'm completely
puzzled about it
I just need to know how to figure out what is causing this...is it
related to pam, folder permissions, server config, ....

MacShabba

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Mac Shabba wrote:
> Compile and install went fine. I can also start dovecot, and telnet to
> it...but I can't login
> Even before I try to auth i get this in the log:
>>> localhost dovecot: Dovecot starting up
>>> localhost imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to
get list of
> authentication servers: Permission denied
Check permissions on "login-dir"  (login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login)
It most likely needs to be readable by the "dovecot" user.

If you set the group ownership to whatever group "dovecot" belongs to,
then set the mode to 750, that should work and be safe.

Todd