I use courier-imap on netbsd-3.0 with mailboxes that have 50,000
messages.  Your log shows courier imap closing the connection because it
cannot find shared/index.  I don't have these error messages, and I
don't have a shared/index.

Would you post your .muttrc, imapd, imapd-ssl, and imapd.cnf?

Ben

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:21:14PM -0500, dick@uchicago.edu wrote:
> i'm running netbsd-3.0 with the following setup:
>  - courier-imap-4.0.6 binary package
> 
>  - from /var/log/maillog on IMAPS server:
> ...
> Apr 11 23:10:37 mail imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=jy-p@mysite.com,
> ip=[::ffff:10.9.1.2], protocol=IMAP
> Apr 11 23:10:40 mail imapd-ssl: /usr/pkg/etc/courier/shared/index: No such file
> or directory
> Apr 11 23:11:49 mail imapd-ssl: DISCONNECTED, user=jy-p@mysite.com,
> ip=[::ffff:10.9.1.2], headers=56771, body=0, time=72, starttls=1