courier-imap fest

[dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>]

hi all,
       anyone using courier-imap had originally thought it behaved
like imapd but it does not IOW you get a auth prompt and this
one maps directly to userland passwd voila and away you go.
But with courier-imap one still gets the auth pop-window and
i can see that the connection has been ESTABLISHED .
Secondly the maillogs indicate LOGGED IN but imap client
is unable to access the folders or subscribe. (Just get the pop
up asking once more for authentication.) I assumed that userdb
needed the makeuserdb so i did so as well. What exactly does one
need to do to get the userdb to work properly. This i assume is the
component that is not configured right. Anyone? TIA