imapd blues

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:12:24AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> I want to setup imapd on my system, but I'm having trouble with 
> authentication. I'm running Red Hat Enterprise 4 and it looks like 
> cyrus-imapd is configured to use saslauthd. I'm also running NIS and
> the host which is running imapd is not the NIS master, so the password 
> needs to be fetched out
> through a yp call of some sort. I ran across a program testsaslauthd 
> which also fails when I
> try to authenticate myself. So I figure my problem is in the saslauthd 
> configuration. Can anyone
> give me some words of advice? Is it possible to get imapd just to 
> authenticat through NIS
> password? Or through pam or whatever?

Cyrus is a strange beast and may not be suitable for your needs.
Do you store mail in mbox, MH or Maildir? Do you have any users
who want both command-line access and IMAP access?

-dsr-


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