Everything is blazingly fast (Sorry, I come from a MS Exchange, Domino world) so I'm amazed at the speed of IMAP.

OK, this is what was wrong (at least in the last 20 times or so I've installed courier) and I finally found out what was wrong.

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In one of the test scripts that you recommend doing, it was to send email to "postmaster" or "root" and see if it forwarded it correctly to "admin". Well, when you do that test, the test makes a file called "Maildir". Note: that's a FILE. Not a real Maildir. So once everything was installed, I tried logging onto that account. It blew up, and was unhappy. I then noticed that Maildir was ont a real Maildir, and deleted it, did a 'makemaildir" on it and it worked!

Also, I don't now why, but this is the sequence I had as far as installing courier on OpenBSD.

./configure {options} make (make check doesn't work on OpenBSD, thread class problem) make install gmake install-configure.

This works.

But if you did a: ./configure {options} make gmake install <-- (Note, that's a gmake, not a make) gmake install-configure

This does _NOT_ work. I don't know why. But if you substitute BSD's make with gmake anywhere but the gmake install-configure, all the standard tests fail. the perftest1 doesn't do anything. I have no clue why, but I can tell you that for a fact (at least on OpenBSD).

If you did a ./configure {options} gmake

That will not work either. The only place you can do a gmake and have it work is in the gmake install-configure. Otherwise, perftest1 doesn't pass. You get no mail, period. I don't know why, nor do I care. Just a heads up for those trying on OpenBSD. Maybe there's something that they have done to fix that, but it's what I've experienced.

Albert