IMAP server will not allow users with UID 0

[IllusionMPN]

How do I get to access this file to set it to something else? Here is the reply from the tech.

That's an smtp auth error, you will either need to disable smtp authentication on your mta or configure squirrelmail to do smtp auth if possbile.

Anyone offer any ideas?

 

[nobaloney]

I'm not sure who your tech is or why he gave you an unhelpful answer.

But I'm about to give you another unhelpful answer:

Users with a UID of 0 are root users and if/when they can login they can do anything, including the famous one line command which will delete everything on all connected hard drives.

So you should never risk exposing their passwords to any other programs, for example email.

If you need to accept email to root, you should forward it to some other username for reading using IMAP or POP3.

If it's not the root user, then it shouldn't have a UID of 0.

Jeff