Re: Problems with Outlook Express and cyrus.

From: Scott Dexter (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 09:36:19 EDT


My bad, I am using cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.15.

I realize pwcheck is deprecated, I am using exim as a MTA and it
supports pwcheck, not saslauthd.

Scott

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:56, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Since you haven't mentioned which version of Cyrus IMAP or SASL, I'm
> going to assume IMAP v2.x and SASL v2.x. The pwcheck authentication
> method is deprecated in SASLv2. Unless you're authenticating against
> some home grown backend database, you should be using:
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>
> and run:
>
> saslauthd -a shadow
>
>
> Scott Dexter wrote:
> > Sorry, I'm currently using pwcheck to auth for exim, so that or
> > /etc/shadow would do the job.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 12:25, Ken Murchison wrote:
> >
> >>It is definitely a SASL issue. You need to tell us how you plan to do
> >>plaintext authentication (sasldb2, PAM, /etc/shadow, MySQL, etc).
> >>
> >>
> >>Scott Dexter wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Could this possibly be a SASL issue (either in the way it was compiled
> >>>or configured).
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:35, Scott Dexter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I've recently set up a new cyrus IMAPd server and am having problems
> >>>>getting my Outlook Express client to work well with it. Keep seeing the
> >>>>following errors in the logs:
> >>>>
> >>>>Aug 1 11:50:29 mailsrv imapd[25883]: badlogin: host.domain
> >>>>[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] plaintext sdexter SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
> >>>>checkpass failed
> >>>>
> >>>>I am sure this has been covered before, but my digging in the archives
> >>>>didn't turn up much.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Scott

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