Help for a novice.I Just cant get it??

I’m Running 10.4 server and need Vacation.
I have followed the instructions to the letter but still get the following:

Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server localhost.
Please contact your administrator.

I’m a complete novice to Unix and Treminal and therefore I do not fully understand some of the previous solutions in this forum. I have tried to change the permisions on the 2 pwauxprop. files using the following:

sudo chgrp mail /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.la
sudo chgrp mail /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.so
sudo chmod 705 /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.la
sudo chmod 705 /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.so
sudo chflags uchg /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.la
sudo chflags uchg /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.la

This looks like it has worked because the icon has changed to include a lock. But I still cannot loginto the filters.

Can someone please post an IDIOT’s guide with code that can be copy / paste into Terminal for the novice like me to get this working