Hi folks, i am trying to get dovecot to work in my qmail-ldap instalation but no success so far. I respectfuly request your help. Here is my /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf : auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir=/var/dovecot default_process_limit=100 disable_plaintext_auth=no listen=200.235.128.97 log_path=/var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Etosha Messaging Suite IMAP ready mail_uid=vmail mail_gid=vmail mail_location = maildir:/var/pop/%u/Inbox mail_max_userip_connections = 100 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from subject mail_log_group_events mechanisms = plain login quota = maildir quota_rule = ?:storage=0 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+1024000 quota_rule3 = SPAM:ignore trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf } protocols = imap service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 1 } service imap { executable = imap } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota mail_log notify imap_quota } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Here is my dovecot-ldap.conf : host = x.y.z.k dn = cn=mail,ou=appsrv,dc=ufv,dc=br dnpass = MaIlAsuopdVpw sasl_bind = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = ou=people,dc=ufv,dc=br scope = subtree pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid=user,mailHost=host,=y=proxy_maybe user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)) user_attrs = mailmessagestore=home,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,mailHost=host,=y=proxy_maybe Here is the output of pkg_info for my openbsd server 5.4 amd64. obsd# pkg_info | grep dovecot dovecot-2.1.17 compact IMAP/POP3 server dovecot-ldap-2.1.17 LDAP authentication support for Dovecot obsd# Here the output : sioux at obsd$ telnet obsd imap Trying x.y.z.k... Connected to obsd. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. Connection closed by foreign host. sioux at obsd$ I just hit "enter" and the message was that, "Ok waiting for authentication ..." May somehere help me ? Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.