Are you sure those files belong to the correct user?

If you created them as root they will not be writable by the imapd user
until you give those files to the right user with "chown"

Stefan Goethals
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:31:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> execute
> touch /var/log/imapd.log
> and
> touch /var/log/auth.log
>
> imapd does not create the files if they dont exist

This doesn't change anything, I tried this before.

Manuel

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