This howto will always fail http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml#doc_chap4 I tried all of stable version from http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=courier-imap 4.0.1, 3.0.8, 3.0.7. The /etc/init.d/authdaemond status * status: started after a stop /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start * Starting authdaemond.plain ... [ ok ] * Starting courier-imapd ... [ !! ] cat authdaemond.conf AUTHDAEMOND="authdaemond.plain" # AUTHDAEMOND="authdaemond.mysql" # AUTHDAEMOND="authdaemond.pgsql" # AUTHDAEMOND="authdaemond.ldap" stop cat imapd ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 PORT=143 MAXDAEMONS=100 MAXPERIP=10 PIDFILE=/var/run/imapd.pid # TCPDOPTS="-nodnslookup -noidentlookup" AUTHMODULES="authdaemon" AUTHMODULES="authvchkpw" #AUTHMODULES_ORIG="authdaemon" DEBUG_LOGIN=2 IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-SHA1 IDLE" IMAP_KEYWORDS=1 IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA AUTH=CRAM-MD5AUTH=CRAM-SHA1 IDLE" IMAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT=60 IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS="$IMAP_CAPABILITY AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN" IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS_ORIG="$IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN" IMAP_DISABLETHREADSORT=0 IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS=0 IMAP_OBSOLETE_CLIENT=0 IMAP_ULIMITD=65536 IMAP_USELOCKS=0 IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE=0 IMAP_TRASHFOLDERNAME=Trash IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=0 IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=0 SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail HEADERFROM=X-IMAP-Sender IMAPDSTART=YES MAILDIRPATH=Maildir MAILDIR=.maildir #MAILDIRPATH=.maildir #MAILDIR=Maildir PRERUN= --stop-- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge courier-imap 2. 3. Actual Results: I looked for in the gentoo forum and in google. It is not the -fPIC problem. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.7.0 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 15 2005, 16:49:28)] distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers " CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/service /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa apache2 arts authdaemond bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdb cdparanoia cdr chroot codecs crypt cups curl dba dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl esd fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash font-server fortran freetype freetype-version-1 gd gd-external gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk icq image imagekits imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 irda java jp2jpeg jpeg2k junit kde koffice-plugin ldap libwww live lm_sensors lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska matrox memlimit motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mpeg4 mplayer mysql ncurses network nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam pam-mysql pda pdf perl php png python qt radius readline real rtc scanner serial session slang snmp ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l v4l2 valias vhosts vorbis xanim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi linguas_de" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
*** Bug 89560 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
please emerge latest version of courier-imap make sure you edit /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc before starting ...
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