I have dovecot installed and running and working in both mail.app and Thunderbird. Thanks, Jus, for the 2nd recommendation to use it. It took some "doh!" moments but I got it all running.

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Ryan
	
On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:

> Yes, you are the second person to recommend that to me in the last 15 minutes. I am going to look into it tomorrow evening (it's too late to set up a new installation tonight - I won't get any sleep).
> 
> 
> On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:45 PM, jus at krytosvirus.com wrote:
> 
>> Is dovecot an option in fbsd package or ports? I think it is a much better pop/imap server. I have not had much experience with uw and I hope to keep it that way so I don't have much in the way of uw specific assistance other than maybe point out you did not indicate server version, any non default server config settings, encryption used, etc. Also I would check for verbose logging on the server and also try another client, even telnet thru an imap login assuming plaintext is available
>> 
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Ryan Coleman
>> Sender: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
>> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
>> Subject: [tclug-list] Issues with imap-uw
>> Sent: Jan 10, 2010 8:20 PM
>> 
>> I'm having authentication issues with imap-uw. I've tried using Thunderbird with the same problem.
>> 
>> In /var/log/maillog I'm getting the following:
>> 
>> Jan 10 20:18:26 server imapd[16050]: Unexpected client disconnect, while reading line user=??? host=[10.0.1.1]
>> Jan 10 20:18:26 server imapd[16051]: Unexpected client disconnect, while reading line user=??? host=[10.0.1.1]
>> Jan 10 20:18:26 server imapd[16052]: Unexpected client disconnect, while reading line user=??? host=[10.0.1.1]
>> Jan 10 20:18:26 server imapd[16053]: Unexpected client disconnect, while reading line user=??? host=[10.0.1.1]
>> 
>> This is my second FreeBSD 8 server unit this week -- long story -- and "out of the box" the last imap-uw installation worked without a hitch. 
>> 
>> Any ideas? I've installed with plaintext and ssl support.
>> 
>> TIA,
>> Ryan
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