The ipop2d, ipop3d, and imapd daemons should be invoked by your /etc/inetd.conf file with lines such as: pop2 stream tcp nowait root %%PREFIX%%/libexec/ipop2d ipop2d pop3 stream tcp nowait root %%PREFIX%%/libexec/ipop3d ipop3d imap4 stream tcp nowait root %%PREFIX%%/libexec/imapd imapd If PAM authentication support has been compiled in you will need to add something like the following lines to /etc/pam.conf (PAM authentication is default): imap auth required pam_unix.so imap account required pam_unix.so imap session required pam_unix.so pop3 auth required pam_unix.so pop3 account required pam_unix.so pop3 session required pam_unix.so The pam_unix module does not have session support, so we do not use it for session management. Be sure to read up on pam.conf(5). To configure imap-uw read %%DOCSDIR%%/imaprc.txt. Particularly consider changing mail-subdirectory to mail to have ~/mail the default mail directory as is default in some MUAs, and to avoid having the whole home dir accessed. ===> NB: IMAP-UW now rejects non-encrypted logins by default. To change this ===> behaviour, recompile and reinstall cclient and imap-uw ports with one of ===> the following make variables defined: WITHOUT_SSL - build without SSL/encryption support. WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT - build with SSL/encryption support, but allow non-encrypted logins.