Just a note for others that do not wish to waste time rediscovering the wheel. And to put this where I can google for it the next time I forget things I once knew. Despite the fact that RH 4EL ships with both cyrus-sasl and cyrus- imap, and despite the fact that cyrus-imap requires cyrus-sasl to work, /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd is distributed with MECH=shadow even though cyrus-imapd needs this value set to MECH=pam. Oh. Do not overlook that the /var/spool/imap (or whatever) mailbox directory has to be owned by the cyrus user. Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3