On 10/19/2011 06:40 AM, Rajeshwar Bharathi wrote:
Hi All, I am trying to setup a cyrus imap server. I am using an 32-bit AWS AMI on EC2. I used yum to insatll cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imapd The installation went thru fine and I am able to create users using saslpasswd2 when I start cyrus-imapd server it comes up fine /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start I have the following configuration files. /etc/imapd.conf /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd /etc/sysconfig/sendmail.conf /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf I have the following configurations in /etc/imapd.conf configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus root sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail hashimapspool: true sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt # uncomment this if you're operating in a DSCP environment (RFC-4594) # qosmarking: af13 when I try to test I get the following errors test1>>> imtest -m login -p imap localhost Authentication failed:gebneric error test2>>>> cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain Password: IMAP Password: Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118 cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as cyrus Please let me know what config problems i have and how to proceed further.
I believe you need this in imapd.conf to login with plain text passwords. allowplaintext:yes
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