> I guess what I am really trying to confirm, is "Does IMAP/POP disallow > collection of root email?" Yes - users with UID less than 100 are restricted from imap connections. Have a look at /etc/pam.d/imap (which actually just points back to /etc/pam.d/system-auth). The line in system-auth that looks like this: account sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100 is responsible for this behavior. Have a look in /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77 for more details. Thomas