Hi, I note this in the mail.log:
cyrus/master[4102]: process 5914 exited, status 0 cyrus/master[5968]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd cyrus/imaps[5968]: executed cyrus/imapd[5968]: accepted connection cyrus/imapd[5968]: mystore: starting txn 2147483727 cyrus/imapd[5968]: mystore: committing txn 2147483727 cyrus/imapd[5968]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication cyrus/imapd[5968]: login: euphorie[82.67.66.131] pascal CRAM-MD5+TLS User logged in cyrus/imapd[5968]: seen_db: user pascal opened /var/lib/cyrus/user/p/pascal.seen cyrus/imapd[5968]: open: user pascal opened INBOX.Cyrus mailinglist cyrus/imapd[5968]: accepted connection and when I try: imtest -m login -a pcs localhost or imtest -u pascal -m login -p imaps -v localhost I get this: $ imtest -m login -a pcs localhost S: * OK euphorie.linuxorable.net Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.17-IPv6-Debian-2.1.17-3 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 LOGINDISABLED AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: L01 LOGIN pcs {12} S: L01 NO Login only available under a layer Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 and nothing more ! This is my imapd.conf: servername: euphorie.linuxorable.net configdirectory: /var/lib/cyrus defaultpartition: default partition-default: /var/spool/cyrus/mail partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news newsspool: /var/spool/news altnamespace: no unixhierarchysep: no reject8bit: yes munge8bit: yes lmtp_downcase_rcpt: true admins: cyrus maxmessagesize: 20000000 allowanonymouslogin: no autocreatequota: 0 umask: 077 ashimapspool: true allowplaintext: no sasl_mech_list: digest-MD5 cram-MD5 PLAIN sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_auto_transition: yes ls_ca_file: /etc/postfix/mon_AC/private/mon_AC.crt tls_session_timeout: 1440 tls_imap_require_cert: false tls_imap_cert_file: /etc/postfix/mon_AC/certs/linuxorable_tls_signed.pem tls_imap_key_file: /etc/postfix/mon_AC/private/linuxorable_tls.pem tls_lmtp_require_cert: false ls_lmtp_cert_file: /etc/posfix/mon_AC/certs/linuxorable_tls_signed.pem tls_lmtp_key_file: /etc/postfix/mon_AC/private/linuxorable_tls.pem lmtpsocket: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp idlesocket: /var/run/cyrus/socket/idle notifysocket: /var/run/cyrus/socket/notify If I change: allowplaintext: no to allowplaintext: yes it's better: $ imtest -m login -a pcs localhost S: * OK euphorie.linuxorable.net Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.17-IPv6-Debian-2.1.17-3 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 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: L01 LOGIN pcs {12} S: + go ahead C: <omitted> S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 If I change: allowplaintext: no to allowplaintext: yes and disable sasl then I get the same message thant above: $ imtest -m login -a pcs localhost S: * OK euphorie.linuxorable.net Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.17-IPv6-Debian-2.1.17-3 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 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: L01 LOGIN pcs {12} S: + go ahead C: <omitted> S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 Thank you for your help Pascal -- FRANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html