Thank you, Pterobyte: You restored my faith in Leopard Server!

I set up a new installation of Leopard Server 10.5.6 and accepted the base configuration. I wanted to test a mail server setup on VMware Fusion 2.0.2. No issues during the installation but once I started the mail services and setup my first user account, I kept getting IMAP errors in the logs.
After much searching and trying this and that, I found a post with Pterobyte's answer as seen below...I tried his recommendations and suddenly mail worked. My question is this, why would Leopard require this manual configuration/changing permissions when it clearly isn't stated in any of the manuals for mail services or anywhere else for that matter?
Lesson learned? You bet! Seeing is believing and the "It's so easy a caveman can do it" isn't quite the case with Leopard's postfix implementation. I wish Apple would fix the easy mode stuff so that it really does work as advertised. Again, I didn't alter the base installation. Love to get your feedback folks. I still don't know what went wrong but I re-installed the server 3 times and observed the same behavior.
Pterobyte's Recommendations:
Try:
sudo chown -R _cyrus:mail /var/spool/imap
sudo chown -R _cyrus:mail /var/imap
Next check if the user has the necessary access privileges in Server Admin -> "Servername" -> Settings -> Access
Then issue:
sudo postsuper -r ALL

Hmm - My test-leo-server did NOT have to have any permissions changes done - the default values from Apple was correct.
So the question is why your specific installation was bad?
As a curiosity - would these permissions be corrected by running a "Disk Utility: Repair Permissions"?
PS.: I always use the "Combo updates" when they exist, not sure if that's relevant for this secific problem…

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Thank you, Pterobyte: You restored my faith in Leopard Server!

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