pop3/imap server - possibly stupid question

[Thomas Cameron]

> I guess what I am really trying to confirm, is "Does IMAP/POP disallow
> collection of root email?"

Yes - users with UID less than 100 are restricted from imap connections.
Have a look at /etc/pam.d/imap (which actually just points back to
/etc/pam.d/system-auth).  The line in system-auth that looks like this:

account     sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100

is responsible for this behavior.  Have a look in /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77
for more details.

Thomas