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Originally Posted by MUHAMMED SHAFI MK (Post 5763822)

I have configured squirrelmail on RHEL7, I can login to squirrel mail with all other user except root user. when i try to login with root user, it showing " ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server "
what is the reason...?
how can i login with root user..?

i am new one here....
please help me....

By default root is forbidden to access mail through pop3/imap for security reasons. Root can login in the system and use a CLI utility to read his mail.

If you still want to allow access to webmail for root, you need to read your imap server documentation, to see if it can be done.
AFAIK dovecot for example does not allow root login

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# Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly
# to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users.
# Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't
# be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0.
#first_valid_uid = 500
#last_valid_uid = 0

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