courier-imap

[Scott J. Henson]

James Cummings wrote:

>Hiya,
>
>In breezy,  I've installed courier-imap to provide a local imap
>server, and am trying to connect to it in Thunderbird.  However, it
>won't let me log in.   If I telnet to localhost 143 the server
>responds (though I don't log in) but authentication doesn't take place
>properly when I try with thunderbird.
>
>Is this a PAM-related problem?  What do I need to change so I can just
>use my user password to login to courier-imap?
>
>  
>

You probably need to configure the courier-authdaemon correctly.  Have 
you done this yet?  If not thats most likely your problem.