Installing on Fedora

[Dave Close]

Dan White wrote:

>With default configuration, libsasl will reference your sasldb database,
>which is configured using the saslpasswd2 utility.

I wondered about that, having noticed the saslpasswd2 command. So I
used it to set the same password as I had set with straight passwd.
There was no change; imtest still failed the same way.

>If you wish to only use saslauthd, to authenticate against pam for
>instance, then restrict the mechanisms offered by the server with:
>
>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

That line was not in the supplied imapd.conf. Now that I've added it,
imtest succeeds. Thanks a bunch!

It seems to me that something about the default Fedora packages doesn't
match the description offered at the cyrusimap.org help page
(<https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/installation/distributions/fedora.html>).
Perhaps someone should make a few updates.

Now that I'm past this obsticle, I'll take the time to go back and
try to understand the details better.
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