This lookes like the good old SASL-LDAP problem. Have you read the FAQ? Faq: cyrus-utils.sf.net/faq have a special look at the death by 11 section :)
Hope this helps. Tarjei Gardiner Leverett wrote: > > I have a rather complicated load I'm trying to do. I've been going > through the archives without any answers. > > I have a server running Solaris 2.7, and I'm trying to build Cyrus 2.0.16 > with SASL 1.5.24, OpendLDAP 2.0.18, and pam_ldap 1.33. > > I can't even tell if any of this is working as the imap server doesn't > even respond when connecting via the telnet port. I get: > > # telnet localhost imap > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > When I run the imtest: > > # ./imtest -m login localhost > C: C01 CAPABILITY > failure: prot layer failure > > I originally built the server to check against the password file, and I > received this error. I have re-compiled Cyrus to use OpenLDAP and I still > have received this error. I can't determine if any of the > OpenLDAP/PAM/SASL issues others have mentioned on this list and other are > related since the server doesn't even work. > > The configure line I used to build this server was: > > ./configure --prefix=/private/cyrus --with-sasl=/private/software/sasl > --with-auth=unix --with-cyrus-prefix=/private/cyrus --disable-sieve > > The configure line for SASL was: > > ./configure --prefix=/private/software/sasl --disable-krb4 > --disable-gssapi --disable-cram --disable-digest > --with-ldap=/private/openldap --with-pam=/usr/lib/security > > My ultimiate goal is to have verion 2.0.16 authenticating users against a > local OpenLDAP server (with or without PAM). I've tried the sasl patch to > make sasl talk to ldap directly, but after applying the patch, the code > doesn't compile. > > My fall back is using cyrus 1.5.19 (compiled on Solaris 2.6) with checking > to /etc/passwd. (I stole this from another machine in-house). It does > work, but I have to work on the tcl part for cyradm. > > Is there anyone who's run into this problem or similar? Does anyone know > what I'm doing wrong? And why is the CMU Cyrus web server been going up > and down the past week? > > ---------- > Gardiner D. Leverett [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Merit Network, Inc. Phone: 734-647-9888 > 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite 2000 Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785 > http://www.merit.edu