Re: Cyrus-Imap help needed

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:59:09 +0200 (CEST), Roger Grosswiler
<roger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Yang,
> 
> You had Cyrus already running on RH9? Strong part isn't it? Here some hints. I personally find cyrus on FC2 a kind of
> easy to install, where are the times, where you had to compile this yourself (i better do not remember those days i
> passed with installation & configuration)
> 
> If you would like something easier, really try dovecot. But since you are already running cyrus, try this first:
> 
> -> in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd is a line 'MECH=' - set this to 'MECH=pam'
> -> your imapd.conf seems right to me (it's the shipped default, isn't it? ;-) )
> -> is saslauthd running? if no do: '/sbin/service/saslauthd restart' as you authenticate plain against linux-accounts.
> -> restart cyrus-imapd
> -> don't use the root-account for tests....
> -> create a linux-user and in cyradm create the appropriate mailbox - otherwise you can login but there is no mailbox.
> -> test either with imtest or use 'telnet localhost imap'. if you get reply from cyrus (you will get, i am shure, just
> type 'a01 login username "password"' - the "" around the password are needed. cyrus will either display an error or
> something like 'a01 login ok'.
> 
> HTH, let me know if its working or not....
> Roger
> 
Roger,
Thanks for the detailed help, I meant the xinetd imap server on RH9
which required little configuration. Thanks again for the pointers on
Cyrus

Yang


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