On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jared Watkins wrote: > When I login to port 143 using telnet to the _frontend_ that system will > do an ldap lookup and verify the password of the test user. I am able to > list the mailboxes (since they are being provided by mupdate) but when I > attempt to select a mailbox... it fails. When it fails... I can see > the front end attempting to connect to the backend over imap.. but the > backend system replies with 'NO Error authenticating' I also noticed, > while using tcpdump, that the backend system is sending this error > message before the frontend can supply a username...
Do you have a copy of the entire log I could look at (since you've already sent the passwords to a public list, I'm guessing you don't really care about them any more)? > It almost seems like the back end system does not like something about > the greeting message from the front... Sure, but I'll need to know what they are saying to eachother ;) > I am using ldap for all my authentications... or is that not what you > mean? For now I have not compiled any strong mechs.. so everything > should be plain text to keep things simple for testing. No, I thought you said that the frontend wasn't doing an ldap lookup when a user authenticated to it, so I was confused ;) -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
