I got connected. the login name has to be, "domain/userid/emailaddress". However the delete method doesnt work. I even call expunge and quit after my delete call and still no luck. this module worked perfect on NT but on server 2003 its got some problems. thinking of transfering to Mail::IMAPClient. found a fix for the bug. There was a problem with the expunge method. check out, http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8035 There is a fix there. it seeems that the module was sending an extra white space when expunging the selected folder.