I have recently installed Cyrus-imapd on a new server that I have been trying to setup as a e-mail server. The server is running RedHat Linux 8.0 with postfix as the MTA (although sendmail is installed and ready to be used in case the need arises).
I used the rpm version of cyrus (cyrus-imapd-2.1.11-3.src.rpm) available from http://home.teleport.ch/simix/ and the installation went very smoothly (no errors during installation). However, I am now having a problem with authentication. When I attempt to log in to the pop3 server via telnet, I receive the following error: ---- Script started on Sun Jan 5 12:03:28 2003 [jon@warlord jon]$ telnet auburn.k12.ma.us 110 Trying 216.20.114.12... Connected to [url] (ip). Escape character is '^]'. +OK mail.auburn.k12.ma.us Cyrus POP3 v2.1.11-Invoca-RPM-2.1.11-3 server ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user cyrus +OK Name is a valid mailbox pass <passwd> -ERR [AUTH] Invalid login quit Connection closed by foreign host. [jon@warlord jon]$ exit Script done on Sun Jan 5 12:05:07 2003 --- When doing an imtest on the local machine, I get the following error --- bash-2.05b$ imtest -m login -p imap localhost S: * OK mail.url Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.11-Invoca-RPM-2.1.11-3 server ready C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {8} S: + go ahead C: <omitted> S: L01 NO Login failed: no mechanism available Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 C: Q01 LOGOUT * BYE LOGOUT received Q01 OK Completed Connection closed --- My /etc/imapd.conf file contains the following: --- configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no sieveuserhomedir: no sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail hashimapspool: true sasl_pwcheck_method: shadow sasl_mech_list: PLAIN tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem --- I thought that perhaps the user 'cyrus' is not used as a regular authenticated imap user, so I did teh following as user "CYRUS" --- bash-2.05b$ cyradm localhost IMAP Password: Login failed: no mechanism available at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 114 cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with as cyrus --- I'm assuming all of these errors are interlinked with the authentication mechanism. However, I have no idea how to fix this, and am hoping some of you on this list can help me out. Thank you in advance for any help any of you can provide. If I have the wrong list for this type of help, please direct me to the appropriate list. Thank you in advance. -- -Jon "GenKiller" Gaudette Digital Drip Webmaster (digital-drip.com) CNCNZ Co-Webmaster (cncnz.com)
