hey everyone im tryin to get squirrelmail to work i have everything installed but when i log in i get this error message

Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins are disabled. Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead may work. Also, the use of TLS may allow SquirrelMail to login. Please contact your system administrator and report this error.


can anyone supply step by step instructions to fix this problem thanks everyone.

As it says , plaintext authentication disabled. Enable that on your IMAP server or check on squirrelmail website if you can do a CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication or TLS using a plugin.

The current debian testing squirrelmail package doesn't migrate the config to the current version. You can:
{
move away the old /etc/config.php *
run /etc/squirrelmail/conf.pl (symlink to /usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure)
hit reload on the squirrelmail page where you got the error.
} or {
make sure that "$imap_auth_mech = 'cram-md5';" is in /etc/config.php
}

* squirrelmail-configure doesn't seem to parse an existing config.php . If this seems broken to you, you can always fix it. I was just barely ambitious enough to mention it here.