The dovecot config listed in the SASL_README is obsoleted for dovecot 2.0, it should probably be updated to reflect that. I'm not sure exactly what should go in the SASL_README file but I'll show the relevant part of my own dovecot config (which uses an sql db for authentication, not pam):
auth_mechanisms = plain login passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf driver = sql } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0660 } } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf driver = sql } Note that if you put the old config in dovecot will give a warning on startup and `doveconf -n' will show the new config that you should replace it with. Peter