I've been struggling with this for hours on end! All I want to do is run an IMAP server to allow my Windows clients to access their unix email with Outlook Express. I tried the imap package but that has been modified now so that no POP3 or IMAP login is allowed with a plaintext password unless using SSL encrypted sessions. I do not want to get into the complexity of installing SSL, all boxes are behind a completely secure firewall and use CVS pserver, etc. anyway so the "security" gained by encrypting either session or passwords is completely illusory. The imapd daemon wouldn't accept encrypted passwords even when I switched the option on in my test Outlook Express mail client so I can't win either way. I tried to recompile imapd from source since the change to not allow plaintext passwords except in a TLS session is actually compiled into the server (very bad form, should be a config file option, probably with this setting as default). The source package is broken and won't compile. I tried installing the fiendishly complex cyrus-imapd but that doesn't work either, complaining about a "cannot connect to saslauthd server". Tried changing the sasl_pwcheck_method to "pwcheck" to see if that helped. Daemon won't start now complaining of db errors. I've set up qpopper to act as a pop3 client so I can now at least pick up my mail inbox from /var/spool/mail/<username> but that means I can't access other folders so (i) if users read mail on UNIX clients the mail goes into mbox and is inaccessible from Windows henceforth and more importantly (ii) users cannot use .procmailrc to sort mail into files like "spam", "suse-security-mailing-list", "cvs-logs" as these are now only accessible via unix and not Windows where people do most of their daily work. Really it's such a simple thing I want to do! Can anyone help? Thanks, Carl