I have been trying to install cyrus on Solaris 2.7 (with PAM), So far I have successfully started up the imap / pop3 servers via master, my IMAP client “MS Outlook!” can successful login in. Feb 22 20:42:04 mail imapd[6581]: login: WJSPC[10.0.1.2] wshenfi plaintext But I can not get cyradm and imtest to work, (I understand I need to run cyradm in order to create mailbox’s) I get the following errors: $ imtest localhost C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * OK mail.dcm-on-line.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.11 server ready S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNS ELECT MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE AUTH=CRAM-MD5 S: C01 OK Completed C: A01 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 S: + PDExNDE2MzQ1NjYuOTc5NjA3M0BtYWlsLmRjbS1vbi1saW5lLmNvbT4= Please enter your password: C: Y3lydXMgNDdhZjRlM2U5N2FmM2NlNDIzYWVlYmJlZTA2OGEyNmM= S: A01 NO authentication failure Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 Error in log file: Feb 22 20:42:27 mail imapd[6584]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 authentication failure [no secret in database] $ cyradm -u cyradm localhost Please enter your password: IMAP Password: Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris/Cy rus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 78 cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with as cyradm Feb 22 20:44:19 mail imapd[6586]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] PLAIN no mechanism available Any help will be appreciated, Regards, William Shenfield