greetings, (thanks to sandy for helping me to the point of getting the mail in and not loosing any post during the transition) as i am still in the process of getting my mail system configured, one of the reasons why i havent finalized my postfix configuration is because is my current priority is to get imap to work with postfix. ive tried imap-cyrus but deduced it was a bit too much as each time i create a user account, i would have to create a separate mailbox on cyrus, imap-courrier uses MailDir which is not my current option untill i get my hardware upgraded as MailDir is I/O intensive on the harddrive. so im trying to use the basic imap package. my prob is that after isntalling the package, i enabled the imap and pop under xinetd and then tried to telnet to port 110 and manually test functionality unfortunatelly the attempt fails as you can see bellow, any ideas why? btw this is the same with the imap port 143 telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 localhost 2004.89 server ready user XXXXXX -ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command regards RP -- ___________________________ If computers were made in heaven, would they be perfect? ___________________________