From: "Peter Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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:
> any ideas?? Thanks.
With Outlook Express you need the LOGIN mech (compile SASL with
"--with-login").
You don't need STARTTLS to authenticate OE using the LOGIN mech, but it is
recommended since the password is sent unencrypted to the server.
Since your using the sasldb database, make sure you create each user with
saslpasswd. You also need to make sure that the sasldb is owned and
readable by the user that the Cyrus server is running as.
Scot
