KMail from many platforms

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 19:27:04 Derek Broughton wrote:
> For two users on the same computer, it's easiest
"easy" is a very relative term, it's easy for a bird to fly ;-)
> to use a local IMAP server 
> (never mind about "offline" or "disconnected" IMAP).
Not up to the point where I can start figuring out the meaning or the 
implications. 
> Install dovecot or 
> courier-imap and put all the folders under the server.

I installed dovecot, from sources because I couldn't find it in KUbuntu's 
repos (was in Ubuntu's though but I didn't dare try that)
I spent 2 days trying to get it working and made "some" progress.
First tried with disable_plaintext_auth: no . It didn't work,
 then deciding I wanted pam authentication I created /etc/pam.d/dovecot

Now the logfile says:
"auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built 
without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options)"

Output of that command:
+Build options: ioloop=poll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl
+SQL drivers:
+Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow
+Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file static
That doesn't tell me anything but dovecot-1.0.8$ ./configure --help tells me 
that PAM support is the default option for configure.

sudo dovecot -n produces:
+# 1.0.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
+base_dir: /home/perry/var/run/dovecot/
+log_path: /home/perry/dovecot-1.0.8/log/logfile
+info_log_path: /home/perry/dovecot-1.0.8/log/logfile
+ssl_disable: yes
+login_dir: /home/perry/var/run/dovecot//login
+login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
+login_user: perry
+auth default:
+  debug_passwords: yes
+  passdb:
+    driver: pam
+    args: dovecot
+  userdb:
+    driver: passwd

I checked for the files given in "man pam", /lib/libpam.so.79 and 
/lib/security/ contains numerous .so pam files

Googling was of no help, so I'm stuck


Any hints?

Thanks		Perry