> No. The problem here is that the binary was linked with the wrong options.
> Did you compile imap from pkgsrc ? 

yes. NetBSD-1.5/source/sets/pkgsrc.tgz

NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz fixed my lib problems.
i did have to patch, see below.

thanx Manuel, thanx YubYub,
~n




--- Makefile    Sun Dec  3 19:15:12 2000
+++ Makefile.new        Sun Dec  3 19:09:43 2000
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
 
 INFO_FILES=            gettext.info
 
-post-patch:
-       ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/intl/libgettext.h
-       ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/intl/libintl.h
-       ${CP} ${FILESDIR}/libgettext.h ${WRKSRC}/intl
+#post-patch:
+#      ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/intl/libgettext.h
+#      ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/intl/libintl.h
+#      ${CP} ${FILESDIR}/libgettext.h ${WRKSRC}/intl
 
 post-configure:
-       ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/intl/libintl.h
+#      ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/intl/libintl.h
 
 post-install:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/intl; ${MAKE_PROGRAM} install-data