Hi archers, I've just made one of my machines an arch box, and one thing that gave me headaches no end was setting up dovecot on it. In my setup I'm using PAM authentication with a passwd userdb. So no reliance on mysql or postgreql. When installing dovecot, pacman informs me that I may want to install some mysql or postgresql libraries as *optional* dependencies if I want to use those backends. Since I don't, I didn't install these libraries at first. After some long debugging sessions, I realized that my failure to connect to my freshly setup dovecot server was because dovecot-auth failed. It was looking for the mysql and postgreql shared libraries that were not installed. After installing these libraries, all was fine. So now I'm wondering whether there may be something wrong with my setup that forces dovecot to at least try the mysql/postgresql backends, which it would need those libraries for. The other option is that I did everything right, and dovecot-auth is simply linked against those libraries and cannot run without them, no matter what the configuration file says. In the former case, I'd appreciate some enlightenment as to what I should be looking for in my configuration to remove dovecot's dependency on these libraries. In the latter case, I'd say a bug report is in order because if dovecot-auth relies on these libraries, they should be pulled in as dependencies instead of being declared optional. Cheers, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments