On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:59 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > > Bryan Liles wrote: > > Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > > > >> I have installed fetchmail and cyrus imap rpms on my machine in the > >> hopes to be able to configure them so that I can run a local imap > >> server that downloads my remote e mail and then serves it via IMAP on > >> my local machine. > >> > >> But I can't seem to be able to figure out how to configure them so > >> they work together. I have been trying to do this for months and have > >> not had any success. Can anyone point me to a site or howto that > >> shows me how to do this step my step? Most of the sites I have seen > >> show me how to do this from a compiled version of both but I was not > >> able to compile and install them properly which is why I moved to rpms. > > > > > > > > I find dovecot much easier to work with as opposed to cyrus. Maybe you > > can give that a try. > > > Unfortunately I started with cyrus before I got to read this email and now I think Im to far into it > to turn from it now. So I am trying to do this systematically. Right now it seems I can telnet to > the the IMAP server but I can't seem to connect to it with my client. When I connect to it via > telnet I get the following response: > > [lmcilwain@localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 143 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). > Escape character is '^]'. > * OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-6.fc4 server ready > > But when I try to connect to localhost via my mail client it tells me that its a failed connection > after specifying my password. > > Whats so weird is that I didn't specify a password to telnet to it via the command prompt. Any > ideas of what I maybe doing wrong? ---- I wouldn't say unfortunately you started with cyrus. It just takes a little more to configure than dovecot but it is not that much more. Sounds like you have to configure imapd.conf authentication mechanism. To authenticate a local user (/etc/passwd), you probably have to have these 2 lines in /etc/imapd.conf sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN you still may have to deal with local delivery issues for incoming mail. Craig
