Okay, at Sam's suggestion I have put off tackling authcustom for a bit and gone with the basic auth modules to start.

I configured with:

./configure --with-waitfunc=wait3 --without-authldap --without-authuserdb --without-authcram --without-authvchkpw --without-authmysql --without-authdaemon --without-authcustom --with-authpam --with-authpwd --with-authshadow

and it make'd and make check'd w/o error.

bash-2.03$ ./authinfo AUTHENTICATION_MODULES="authpam authshadow authpwd" SASL_AUTHENTICATION_MODULES="PLAIN LOGIN"

I've started imap according to the doc with:

/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc start and it is running:

root 17774 1 0 16:35:16 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/logger imapd root 17772 1 0 16:35:15 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/lib/ cou

I'm very weak in my testing abilities on IMAP but from another post the following (I think) should work:

bash-2.03$ telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2001 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. login mylogin mypassword <-- where obviously i've given the correct values to imap login NO Error in IMAP command received by server.

Is this even the correct way to log in? Perhaps I missed a simple config file? Not sure how to proceed farther. :(

Thanks,