I now took a look into /var/log/messages and there I found the following lines (after I built cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imapd again following the instructions of Rob Siemborski from December 7, 2001 concerning saslauthd):
Feb 27 17:59:52 mail imapd[6675]: unknown password verifier saslauthd Feb 27 17:59:52 mail imapd[6675]: badlogin: localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] plaintext user SASL(-4): no mechanism available: checkpass failed The first line is the same no matter if pam, sasldb or something like that. Does this help anyone to give me some more hints? Volker
