For some reason sasl is trying to query a sql database. Is it possible that the programs you installed redirected the sasl query from sasldb to sql? If for some reason it installed a pam plugin that says sql is required you are out of luck. Please check to documentation of these programs. I don't understand why - I checked all the files in /etc/pam.d/ and all
Sandy, thanks, I got it working the other relevant files, and there's no reference to sql at all.
You do have a backup of your setup, right? Unfortunately not...
How is saslauthd called and configured in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd? SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH=pam
I changed, in imap.conf: sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop to sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd And that fixed it. I'm just completely baffled at why this would have happened at all. XFFM is the XFCE file manager, xfcalender a calender program - they shouldn't touch my imap, sasl or pam config?!? Thanks for your reply! Hans