Getting cyradm to work over SSL

[Dan White]

On 06/04/15 14:23 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>I'm running cyrus 2.4.17 on Fedora 21 (with cyrus-sasl 2.1.26).
>
>I'm trying to write some test automation, but can only get it to work 
>with IMAP, not IMAP/SSL.
>
>If I run:
>
>% cyradm --user cyrus --port 143 --auth login --notls localhost
>
>that works fine (though oddly it complains about a self-signed cert).  
>I've created a user "cyrus" using:
>
>saslpasswd -c -u mail cyrus
>
>and that authenticates fine.
>
>If I run:
>
>% cyradm --user --port 993 --auth login localhost

Assuming that you are not using client certs, try adding:

--tlskey ""

to your command.

>however, it silently fails to authenticate with exit code 141.
>
>The relevant part of my config file looks like:
>
>admins: cyrus
>sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>hashimapspool: true
># sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
># sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5
>allowplaintext: no
>defaultdomain: mail
>
>Why does cyradm work with clear IMAP but fail with IMAP/S?

imtest is another option for automation.