Fixed it, the username had been truncated when i created the database user, and i hadnt realised.. the error wasnt very clear, maybe this was the Pear::DB? Normaly i'd expect:

Access Denied for user@localhost. (Using Password YES)

or something to that effect.. anyway.. its now running fine afaik... but when i try to login to a mail server it doesnt work..

http://www.ircsucks.com/mail (testing@ircsucks.com | password | mail.ircsucks.com OR localhost)

When i use the same server info that roundcube is on it goes wierd but still errors:

Warning: fopen(./logs/errors): failed to open stream: Keine Berechtigung in /home/ircsucks/public_html/mail/program/include/bugs.inc on line 67 IMAP Error in (): Authentication failed (LOGIN): "a001 NO LOGIN failed"

wth?

Hope somebody can help :)

Thanks

Michael

PS: I'm very interested in getting this working under cPanel (www.cpanel.net) cPanel uses http auth to send the vars to the script, (they currently use squirrelmail/horde/neomail) and IMO they all suck :P ... if i could actually get this to work, perhaps i can use the lil php knowledge i have to help get it working with cPanel?