[gentoo-user] courier problems

[Nick Smith]

ive been trying to setup a mail server following the how-to at  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Hosting_Server#Virtual_Mail_Hosting and everything seems to have been setup correctly, but i keep getting these errors and cant login

Nov 22 23:28:29 mail imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Nov 22 23:28:29 mail imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Nov 22 23:28:29 mail imapd: authentication error: Input/output error

i get this everytime i try to login either via an email client or via squirrelmail, squirrelmail gives me a " ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server." error.  i can however login using mutt on the local machine and see that the mail is indeed coming in.  so postfix is doing its job.  this has been a work in progress and over the last month i have been googling tring to find answers, i came across a post on squarism.com that said to downgrade to courier-authlib from 0.57 to 0.55 that it was a shared library problem, so i did that, and it still doesnt work, i have restarted services and even rebooted and still nothing.

i have set up mail servers with gentoo before using an older version of this how-to and it worked flawlessly, i know that there have been changes going on with gentoo, like with the apache config files and stuff like that, so im pretty sure something like that happened to courier.  but has anyone had this problem and possibly know how to correct it?  can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks

Nick