try different php version if you can.
try apache 1.3.33 instead of apache 2.
maybe some functions used in functions/abook_local_file.php don't work
correctly on solaris. maybe rewind(), fgetcsv(), flock(), fclose() or
usleep().
Having trawled through the source code I found the culprit.
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> * IMAP Server Courier-IMAP
> * PHP 4.3.10
> * Web server Apache 2.0.52
> * PlatformSolaris 9 SPARC
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* IMAP Server Courier-IMAP
* PHP 4.3.10
* Web serverApache 2.0.52
* Platform Solaris 9 SPARC
* How your software was installed self extracted
* SquirrelMail version