hi,it seems that the problems were caused by apache (just wondering why, the php should be communicating with the ssl imap directly shouldn't it?)
keeping all configs, ... and downgrading the apache did the trick. the workinh version of apache is 2.0.54-5. the version 2.0.55-3 doesn't seem to work with squirrelmail.
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