failure: prot layer failure

[Peter Erickson]

I hope that this will make sense. I'll try my best. I am trying to setup imap system that needs to be able to be accessible to Outlook Express 5.00. I am running Cyrus Imap 2.0.9 and when I try to login I get:   [root@silky bin]# ./imtest -m login -u cyrus localhost C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * OK silky.platinumpersonals.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.9 server ready S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT MULTIAPPEE S: C01 OK Completed Password: C: L01 LOGIN root {9} + go ahead C: <omitted> failure: prot layer failure [root@silky bin]# my imapd.conf: [root@silky /etc]# vi imapd.conf configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus root sasl_pwcheck_method: sasldb   I want to be able to use the sasldb, but I need to use PLAIN because I don't believe that outlook can use Kerberos (or at least by what I have been told) and to do that it looks like I need to enable STARTTLS, but when I do that i get the following error with imtest:   [root@foobar bin]# ./imtest -t "" foobar.domain.com C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * OK foobar.domain.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.9 server ready S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMI STARTTLS S: C01 OK Completed S01 OK Begin TLS negotiation now verify error:num=18:self signed certificate TLS connection established: TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits) C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN S: + C: S: A01 NO bad protocol / cancel Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 . logout * BYE LOGOUT received . OK Completed Connection closed. [root@foobar bin]#            any ideas?? Thanks.