Hi friends, could you please help me? I fumbled around for some time now, looked at the imapd sources and searched the net but could not solve the following problem: When I call imapd for a user with a normal shell account (e.g. the shell is /bin/bash for that user), imap-access is doing fine. But when I use a dummy shell for the same user (say /bin/false or similiar) imapd refuses to login with the syslog-message ... imapd[27691]: Login failure user=blah host=blah ... Any hint or idea? Anybody using imapd for users without shells? Or are you doing it within chroot environments only? I'm well aware, that the IMAP-protocoll gives the user some sort of shell on the system. But I would like to understand how (and where) imapd is using the normal user's shell in addition to it's own system-access. Thanks for your help Michael BTW the system is a SuSE 8.0 with imap-2000c-139 -- Michael Zimmermann (Vegaa Safety and Security for Internet Services) Key fingerprint = 1E47 7B99 A9D3 698D 7E35 9BB5 EF6B EEDB 696D 5811