dovecot - Feb 2008 - dovecot rejecting auth after working a few times

Greetings all, I've got a dovecot server up that works just fine for a
few minutes, and then suddenly won't authenticate users. On top of it,
it keeps spawning dovecot-auth processes that won't go away. If any
one has seen this or knows what's causing it I sure could use some
help.

Thanks much.

I've included my relevant config info below
-- 
Matthew Thorley


dovecot --version
1.0.beta3


 grep -v \# /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | grep -vE "^$"
protocols = imaps pop3s
listen = *
ssl_disable = no
ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
disable_plaintext_auth = no
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
login_user = dovecot
mail_extra_groups = mail
mail_debug = yes
default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%u
protocol imap {
}

protocol pop3 {

  pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u
}
auth_verbose =yes
auth_debug = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
auth_worker_max_count = 10
auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  passdb pam {
  }
  userdb passwd {
  }
  user = root
}
plugin {
}

On 2/13/2008, Matthew Thorley (matthew.thorley at novusllc.us)
wrote:
> dovecot --version
> 1.0.beta3
Ack!

You will have to upgrade before anyone will spend any time trying to 
help you. This is extremely old.

It is recommended that you start with a clean, fresh config file, and 
slowly make the changes required for your situation, but be sure to read 
the CURRENT docs, because many things have changed...

http://wiki.dovecot.org/

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

Thanks Charles. I downloaded the latest code, and reconfigured from
scratch. Now everything is working.

Regards
--
matthew

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/2008, Matthew Thorley (matthew.thorley at novusllc.us) wrote:
>  > dovecot --version
>  > 1.0.beta3
>
>  Ack!
>
>  You will have to upgrade before anyone will spend any time trying to
>  help you. This is extremely old.
>
>  It is recommended that you start with a clean, fresh config file, and
>  slowly make the changes required for your situation, but be sure to read
>  the CURRENT docs, because many things have changed...
>
>  http://wiki.dovecot.org/
>
>  --
>
>  Best regards,
>
>  Charles
>


-- 
Matthew Thorley