On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the relevant entry from /var/log/auth.log
May 11 04:23:54 www dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown May 11 04:23:54 www dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser= rhost=::ffff:122.169.50.85 May 11 04:23:54 www dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error retrieving information about user mehul@thehappinesscompany.in
It turns out that user needs to use their login ID and not email address to login via IMAP. So, using the login ID solved the problem.