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I give up. If even the messages syslog file is missing now serious things are broken now. As you seem to be not very experienced and reading documentation did not lead you straight on the correct path - I took me no 30 minutes to setup Sendmail and Cyrus-IMAPd on FC2 without any complications -, I think you better restart with a fresh install and choose the default dovecot. It works right out of the box. This is no comment against Cyrus-IMAPd - I love this IMAP server for it's features and power. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 00:53:06 up 5 days, 22:09, load average: 2.26, 1.29, 1.20 --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html