imp takes 3.5 minutes to login. I have wu-imap and from what I read it could be that... or not. I don't think any took minutes. Even if so, I need the link to show how to solve the wu-imap problem. I have a very fast dual 3.6G Xeon with 2GB memory. My users all have mailboxes less than 200MB and I have about 3000 users -- University of Chicago