> ++ this is what i got from the squirrelmail website, have you tried this:

Yes, I have taken a look at that. Infact when I telnet 143, I do get a
response which to me confirms that imap is actually running (unless
otherwise..)

>>
>> 1. Using squirrelmail, I am able to log into my e-mail account but
>> instead
>> of viewing the contents of my inbox, I get the error, "Connection
>> dropped
>> by imap-server."
>
> ++ http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/MailServerIMAPProblem
>
>>
>> 2. I can't pop mail using M$ Outlook due to an invalid username or
>> password. I am very certain about these details coz I am able to use
>> the same for logging into the e-mail account via squirrelmail.
>
> ++ i noticed some time back when i installed courier-imap on a BSD box
> that it
> is sensitive to whitespace's especially when you are using it with the
> mysql
> module( what i was using then not sure about the rest), the authmysqlrc
> file
> will not complain that it has white space's but simply wont authenticate
> the
> user, you can up the logging level and get more verbose output in your
> logs.
>

I did ensure that I had no white spaces at all in the authmysqlrc file.

>>
>> Note: I am running FreeBSD 4.x with the courier version packages as
>> follows;
>>
>> courier-authlib-0.55_1
>> courier-imap-4.0.2
>
> ++ At times you simply cant trust ports, you just have to try and build it
> from source, have you tried that ??
>

I do not have courier-imap as one of the available packages (rather
interesting, I must say) from the CD/DVD option hence I can't build it
from source.

Rgds,
Juki.



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