Hi Nicolas, Thanks for your advice. > In /etc/imapd.conf file you must add this line (reads the comments to > understand what you make): > > # Uncomment the following and add the space-separated users who > # have admin rights for all services. > admins: cyrus This line already uncommented previously. Otherwise "cyradm --user cyrus localhost" won't work before. > # Space-separated list of users that have imapd "admin" status, in > # addition to those in the admins: entry above > imap_admins: cyrus Uncomment above line. $ sudo /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 restart Stopping Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster. Waiting for complete shutdown.... Starting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster. $ cyradm -user cyrus localhost Password: cyradm: cannot authenticate to server as cyrus Still fail. $ tail /var/log/syslog Jul 9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001 Jul 9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: archiving database file: /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db Jul 9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001 Jul 9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Jul 9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/master[4527]: process 4531 exited, status 0 Jul 9 23:45:30 satimis cyrus/master[4534]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd Jul 9 23:45:30 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: executed Jul 9 23:45:30 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: accepted connection Jul 9 23:45:36 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: badlogin: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database] Jul 9 23:46:01 satimis /USR/SBIN/CRON[4536]: (root) CMD (cd /var/www/SugarCE-Full-5.0.0e; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1) * end * I think the problem may be here; Jul 9 23:45:36 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: badlogin: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database] $ tail /var/log/messages Jul 9 23:38:01 satimis kernel: [ 37.643909] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver Jul 9 23:38:02 satimis kernel: [ 39.876339] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver Jul 9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [ 77.087829] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). Jul 9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [ 77.206053] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Jul 9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [ 77.206070] NFSD: recovery directory /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery doesn't exist Jul 9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [ 77.206073] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period Jul 9 23:38:43 satimis squid[4313]: Squid Parent: child process 4315 started Jul 9 23:38:45 satimis kernel: [ 82.765973] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Jul 9 23:38:45 satimis kernel: [ 82.959424] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. Jul 9 23:38:45 satimis kernel: [ 82.972513] ip_conntrack version 2.4 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 312 bytes per conntrack * end * Nothing specific here. B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html