Obviously I'm doing something wrong. Here is what I am running:

Slackware 10 with Courier-IMAP.

It seems that everything is up and running. When I issue: nmap localhost
I see that the port 25 for STMP, 110 for pop3 and port 143 for IMAP are all running.

From telnet, I try to connect to the email server by issuing:
telnet localhost 143

From here I can not log in. It is as if there is no user.
Did I miss something? I am guessing that is a big yes.

I have not made any mail directories because everything I have read did not mention having to do that which sounds silly.

I did do the "adduser" and put in users with passwords but this does not seem to be the same as for the mail directories. I did this for the samba share part.

Help me out here. I have never set up a mail server before and this is starting to confuse me.

If there is a better place for me to post these kinds of questions (as I feel there will be more) please let me know.

Thanks!

"as if there is no user"? what does that mean? if ou just get no erply at all and it gives up eventaully, then it jsut dsounsd like your're not running the server in the first place.

when i use: nmap [hostname]
it lists that the server for

smtp is running on port 25
pop3 is running on port 110
imap is running on port 143

does that not mean that the servers are running?

when I telnet in on port 25, it gives me "220 mail.mydomain.com ESTMP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Fri, 29 Oct 2004"

This means that SMTP is running, correct?

When I telnet in to port 143 however, a type:
a login [username] [password]

It gives me:

a LOGIN failed.

So.........not sure what's going on?????