SOLVED: Re: Can't login into my Cyrus IMAP !!!!!!!!!!

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With you tip and adding the line listed below the problem is solved:

sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux

As a side comment: thing would have been easier if Ubuntu developers
provided example files or configuration files that just work

Thanks

Andrés Tarallo

2008/4/10, Andres Tarallo <>:
> As you suggested I've changed the imap.conf to use saslauthd. Still
> can't login into my mail server. Now in the syslog I'm getting this
> error:
>
> Apr 11 11:21:34 correo cyrus/pop3[9052]: badlogin: localhost
> [127.0.0.1] plaintext support SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass
> failed
> Apr 11 11:22:45 correo cyrus/master[9041]: process 9052 exited, status 0
>
>
> 2008/4/9, Andrew Morgan <>:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Andres Tarallo wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I can't login into my cyrus IMAP neither via POP or IMAP. However I
> > > can authenticate via testsaslauthd.
> > >
> > > The mailboxes where created as user.loginname
> > >
> > > Here go my relevant config files.
> > >
> > > My /etc/imapd.conf
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > configdirectory: /var/lib/cyrus
> > > defaultpartition: default
> > > partition-default: /var/spool/cyrus/mail
> > > partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news
> > > newsspool: /var/spool/news
> > > altnamespace: no
> > > unixhierarchysep: no
> > > lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
> > > admins: cyrus
> > > allowanonymouslogin: no
> > > popminpoll: 1
> > > autocreatequota: 0
> > > umask: 077
> > > sieveusehomedir: false
> > > sievedir: /var/spool/sieve
> > > hashimapspool: true
> > > allowplaintext: yes
> > > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> > > virtdomains: yes
> > > defaultdomain: correo.mycompany.com.uy
> > > sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> > >
> >
> > You probably want "sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd" here.
> >
> > Andy
> >
>

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