Building IMAP-UW for CentOS

I use IMAP4 on my server. I only use it with SSL, and I don't use POP3. The implementation I have been using is IMAP-UW. Since it needs to compile with SSL support, the OpenSSL development libraries must be installed first.

NOTE! Building IMAP-UW may be redundant if you are also building pine from source, as IMAP-UW is included in the pine distribution. In that case, build and install imapd along with pine, then proceed to the configuration described below.

yum install openssl-devel
yum install pam-devel
make lr5
install -s -o root imapd/imapd /usr/local/libexec

I also have to create a configuration entry for xinetd. Create a file in /etc/xinetd.d called imap, containing the following. I guess a SUGHUP needs to be sent to the xinetd process.

# description: IMAP/SSL using IMAP-UW

service imaps
{
	flags           = REUSE
	socket_type     = stream
	wait            = no
	user            = root
	server          = /usr/local/libexec/imapd
}

Under CentOS, imapd wants to use PAM, and needs to be configured to use it. This is what I am trying first (creating a file called /etc/pam.d/imap):

#%PAM-1.0
auth    required pam_shells.so
auth    include  system-auth
account required pam_nologin.so
account include  system-auth
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session include  system-auth
session required pam_loginuid.so

Finally, I need certificate files. On FreeBSD, I have a file that contains both the private key and the certificate. On this build, imapd is apparently looking for it at /etc/pki/tls/certs/imapd.pem

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Well, this all seems to be working, except for reading my inbox. I moved some messages into my inbox, and that seemed to work, but Thunderbird didn't see them. When I closed Thunderbird and re-opened it, it knew the messages were there, even before I had authenticated. I need to get normal mail delivery working, and do more testing.