FWIW, IMAP is back. I copied the dovecot dist config folder to /etc/dovecot and turned plainText passwords back on, and everything came back to life. I have a big collection of email clients now: mutt, clawsMail, Thunderbird, Sylpheed, Geary... And dovecot has been declared a mixed blessing. There are more lines of code in its eleventy million config files that there are in gcc. And SQL databases? For an IMAP server? Thanks again, list. -- Glenn English