> You're welcome. dovecot only takes a matter of minutes to setup too (pretty
> much on the "protocols" line needs setup for pop3 and pop3s if you're using
> PAM authentication, if LDAP just another line or two) and then just use
> chkconfig to start it up on boot and start the init script.
> 
> You might like to know I've been using dovecot for well over 4 years in
> production supplying many users with pop3 and pop3s. In all that time, it
> stopped running (from memory) only 2 or 3 times and I had to get in there and
> restart the service. I haven't done that now for over a year, which isn't bad
> considering how much use it gets.


Unfortunately dovecot does not seem to work for user root (pop3), while it works for a 
user account. Any ideas on how to make it work for root?