The SASL/IMAP/IMSP installation is about as difficult as any I have run across. While the amount of work on Project Cyrus is very impressive, thorough documentation of it just doesn't seem to be available.
If you do manage to get a SASL/IMAP/IMSP installation running, maybe you'd care to put together a nice HOW-TO for the rest of us?
I gave up trying to use the new IMSP that uses SASL. I simply could not get it to compile on ANY platform (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD were tried). I use an older version with a patch that allows it to authenticate to the imap server. Still, the imsp daemon crashed very frequently on Solaris 8. I recompiled it -- exactly the same way -- on FreeBSD, and it is very stable.
Just try to get it all working with LDAP too!
You wrote:
Surely, thousands of people must have installed the cyrus imap/imsp combination on Solaris 8 without anything like this trouble?
I think that's optimistic. The number of imsp installations *might* be in the triple digits, but I doubt even that. I have absolutely to quantitative data to back up that statement, of course! :)
You can get autoconf, autoheader, etc. packages from <http://www.sunfreeware.com>, but you probably already knew that.
Ted
--On Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:26 PM +0100 Phil Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have just installed a new Sun box running Solaris 8 and expected that installing the cyrus IMAP and IMSP packages would be simple!
First I installed BerkleyDB.3.3 and Perl and they went OK.
Then I picked up cyrus-sasl -2.1.13 and installed that once I sorted out the --with-... and --disable-... options I needed. Not too bad.
Then cyrus-imapd-2.1.13 and that seemed to install OK, again, once I had sorted out the configure options I needed. The IMAP and POP server side seem to run and respond to telnet connections and imtest worked.
I then tried to use cyradm to add some users and that is where it went downhill! I get the following
Can't load '/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so' for module Cyrus::IMAP: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so: symbol sasl_client_init: referenced symbol not found at /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 169. at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 44 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 44. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm line 60. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
As far as I can make out, this is a dynamic library problem, but I have completely failed to find a cure for it.
Help with that will be most welcome.
I then moved on to IMSP and downloaded cyrus-imspd-v1.6a3 and tried to build that. This failed because there is no config.h.in present! I looked at v1.5.28 and that has the same problem. On further reading I found that both these versions need version 1.5.x of sasl. I had just installed 2.1.13 because that is what IMAP needs! So I downloaded cyrusimsp from cvs to get a version which would work with 2.1.13. It now seems I need autoconf (and aclocal and autoheader?) before I can make more progress with that.
Will this never end?
Surely, thousands of people must have installed the cyrus imap/imsp combination on Solaris 8 without anything like this trouble?
Phil. --------------------------------------- Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) University of Exeter
