The ipop2d, ipop3d, and imapd daemons should be invoked by your /etc/inetd.conf file with lines such as: pop2 stream tcp nowait root %%PREFIX%%/libexec/ipop2d ipop2d pop3 stream tcp nowait root %%PREFIX%%/libexec/ipop3d ipop3d imap4 stream tcp nowait root %%PREFIX%%/libexec/imapd imapd If PAM authentication support has been compiled in you will need to add something like the following lines to /etc/pam.conf (PAM authentication is default): imap auth required pam_unix.so imap account required pam_unix.so imap session required pam_unix.so pop3 auth required pam_unix.so pop3 account required pam_unix.so pop3 session required pam_unix.so The pam_unix module does not have session support, so we do not use it for session management. Be sure to read up on pam.conf(5). To configure imap-uw read %%DOCSDIR%%/imaprc.txt. Particularly consider changing mail-subdirectory to mail to have ~/mail the default mail directory as is default in some MUAs, and to avoid having the whole home dir accessed. ===> NB: IMAP-UW now rejects non-encrypted logins by default. To change this ===> behaviour, recompile and reinstall cclient and imap-uw ports with one of ===> the following make variables defined: WITHOUT_SSL - build without SSL/encryption support. WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT - build with SSL/encryption support, but allow non-encrypted logins. %%DRAC%%================================================================================ %%DRAC%%To have DRAC working, you must create ${PREFIX}/etc/dracd.host, containing %%DRAC%%the hostname of the DRAC server: %%DRAC%% %%DRAC%%localhost %%DRAC%%================================================================================ %%SSL%% %%SSL%%To create and install a new SSL certificate for imapd and ipop3d, type \"make %%SSL%%cert\". Or install manually in ${PREFIX}/certs. %%SSL%% %%SSL%%Example inetd config for SSL only services: %%SSL%% %%SSL%%pop3s stream tcp nowait root ${PREFIX}/libexec/ipop3d ipop3d %%SSL%%imaps stream tcp nowait root ${PREFIX}/libexec/imapd imapd %%SSL%%================================================================================