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.
Dovecot Version: Not sure but it is the one that comes with Ubuntu 9.04
OS: Ubuntu 9.04
CPU: x86
Filesystem: Local EXT4
Dovecot Config:
# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.28-11-server i686 Ubuntu 9.04
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
Thanks.
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.
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.
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. >