[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_Hostingand
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=nick.smith@××××××.com,
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