I just joined courier-users to try and solve my problem when I stumbed upon it myself. I was having the dreaded chdir: maillog error, and it appears to have been attributed to the version of vpopmail I was using.. This is more of an FYI / 'get it in the list' email.

And here I had written a whole novel about my problems to send to this list, and posted my ktrace to my website :) bah!

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Ah-HA! I'm now running: FreeBSD-4.3 courier-imap-1.3.9 sqwebmail-3.0.0 vpopmail-4.10.32 qmailadmin-0.72 qmail-scanner-0.96

And all is well. I think there was an issue in vpopmail-4.10.30 (I thought my original email included that.. sorry), that courier-imap (both 1.3.9 and 1.3.8.x) wasn't chdir'ing right. Once I updated to the latest vpopmail, and then recompiled courier, rebooted the system (there's just too damn many start/stop scripts), everything worked well.

The main difference between my setup, and Matt's toaster, is that my setup uses courier, sqwebmail, and qmailadmin use authdaemon (which uses authvchkpw) to authenticate instead of directly using authvchkpw.

The whole reason this started, is that the new qmailadmin has better user "self admin" tasks, than the previous. The new qmailadmin required the newer vpopmail....etc etc :)

Thanks! Rick