Squirrelmail: Unknown username or password incorrect, using SSL

I'm trying to use SSL for email on Mac OSX Server. It works fine from clients using Mozilla Thunderbird but Squirrelmail won't connect. Using the webmail interface I get "Unknown username or password incorrect" every time I try to login.
I went through the squirrelmail conf.pl script and made sure it had cyrix and that the authentication method matches the one checked in Server Admin. The configtest.php returns info followed by this error:
ERROR: You need the openssl PHP extension to use SMTP/IMAP TLS!
The thing is I've tryed this without SSL and still get the "Unknown username" error. In other words, I'm willing to go without SSL IMAP if it will just get this to work but it seems likely there is some other problem than the missing PHP library.
On php.net it has the following:
To use PHP's OpenSSL support you must also compile PHP --with-openssl[=DIR].
I would rather not diverge from Apple's standard config but why isn't SSL for IMAP assumed in the php config that ships on Mac OSX Server? What is the best way to enable the openssl module of php without breaking anything else? Anyway, where are the php files on Mac OSX server?
Mac mini; iMac G5; PowerMac G3 B&W, Rev1, 400Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

It's just not supported and not needed.
The traffic is local, never hits a network so no need to encrypt the traffic.
I would recommend that you have the IMAP SSL option in ServerAdmin set to "Use" not "Require" so that is allows both port 143 and 993.
Have your imap clients connect to port 993 (ssl). Also have this port open through the firewall if needed.
Your Squirrelmail web site should be set to use HTTPS so it's authentication (actually all content) is encrypted over the public internet.
SquirrelMail config can be configured for regular imap on port 143. And block this port at the firewall.
With this setup, anything traversing the public internet is secured.
Jeff

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