imapd, sasl, imtest connection refused

[Mr. Simix]

> I have gotten past a lot of the issues I was facing.  I am now running
> the imtest and getting the following error message:
>
> /usr/local/bin/imtest -m login newpopmail
>
> S: * OK newpopmail Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.9-Invoca-RPM-2.1.9-1 server ready C:
> C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS
> NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS LISTEXT
> LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password:
> C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {10}
> S: + go ahead
> C: <omitted>
> S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
>
> The syslog shows the following error:
> Sep 13 14:33:38 newpopmail imapd[11490]: cannot connect to saslauthd
> server: No such file or directory

Seems like saslauthd is not running or the socket for saslauthd
communication is not there (not likely if you installed via RPM)

try:

chkconfig saslauthd on
service saslauthd start

BTW, when I find some time I'll write a small quick start howto for the
cyrus rpm install.

HTH
Simon

> Sep 13 14:33:38 newpopmail imapd[11490]: badlogin:
> newpopmail[10.47.10.35] plaintext cyrus SASL(-1): generic failure:
> checkpass failed
>
> Anyone have any suggestions or something to check?
> Kim
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: simix at xxl.bi.corp.invoca.ch
>> [mailto:simix at xxl.bi.corp.invoca.ch]On Behalf Of Mr. Simix
>> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:58 AM
>> To: Schmehl, Paul L
>> Cc: ktriplett at riteaid.com; ps; info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> Subject: Re: imapd, sasl, imtest connection refused
>>
>>
>> "Schmehl, Paul L" wrote:
>> >
>> > Is Cyrus running?  Is saslauthd running?
>> >
>> > You start Cyrus with /usr/cyrus/bin/master &
>> > You start saslauthd with /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a plain
>> > (substitute paths accordingly)
>>
>> With the RPM install, it's:
>> service saslauthd start
>> service cyrus-imapd start
>>
>> You may also want to give the cyrus account a password with:
>> passwd cyrus
>>
>> Then login with something like this:
>> cyradm --user cyrus --auth PLAIN localhost
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> >
>> > If you haven't specified the location of the saslauthd socket in
>> imapd.conf, then you can do so when you start it:
>> > /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a plain -m /var/run/saslauthd/mux
>> > (again, substitute paths as appropriate)
>> >
>> > # man 8 master
>>
>> master may conflict with postfix's master, so it "man cyrus-master" in
>> the RPM.
>>
>> > # man 8 saslauthd
>> >
>> > Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
>> > Department Coordinator
>> > The University of Texas at Dallas
>> > AVIEN Founding Member
>> > http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Kimberly Triplett [mailto:ktriplett at riteaid.com]
>> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:04 PM
>> > > To: ps
>> > > Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> > > Subject: RE: imapd, sasl, imtest connection refused
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I downloaded all the rpm's from the web site you listed, did a
>> make distclean on both packages and installed the rpm's.
>> > >
>> > > I installed cyrus-imapd-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm
>> > >             cyrus-imapd-utils-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm
>> > >             perl-cyrus-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm
>> > >
>> > >             cyrus-sasl-2.1.5-1.i386.rpm
>> > >             cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.5-1.i386.rpm
>> > >             cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.5-1.i386.rpm
>> > >             cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.5-1.i386.rpm
>> > > Everything seemed to go ok - I logged into the cyrus account and
>> issued the following commands and got the following error
>> messages:
>> > >
>> > > imtest -m login -p imap localhost
>> > >        connect: connection refused
>> > >        failure: network initialization
>> > >
>> > > cryadm localhost
>> > >        cryadm: cannot connect to server
>> > >
>> > > Are there any more suggestions on what else I can do or where else
>> to look.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > > Kim
>> > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > From: ps [mailto:pstreibig at bcj.com]
>> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:06 PM
>> > > > To: ktriplett at riteaid.com
>> > > > Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> > > > Subject: Re: imapd, sasl, imtest connection refused
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Kim,
>> > > >
>> > > > I had similar issues with an almost identical installation.
>> > >  Someone
>> > > > on the list (forgive me I forget who) mentioned that the
>> > > perl issues
>> > > > were due to RedHat's implementation and location of Perl.  I
>> highly recommend (as many other list readers pointed out) that
>> you
>> > > use Simon
>> > > > Matter's RPMs located  (and maintained wonderfully up to date)
>> at http://home.teleport.ch/simix/ grab all the pieces...
>> > > > before using the RPMs  make sure to  "make distclean"  both
>> > > cyrus-sasl
>> > > > and cyrus-imapd in the directory that you compiled from.
>> > > >
>> > > > i would also suggest using the GNOME  GNORPM tool if you
>> > > can, since it
>> > > > is a bit easier to see when something conflicts, for instance my
>> RedHat 7.2 had a 1.5.x version of SASL included that i chose to
>> upgrade via rpm  from Simon's packages.
>> > > >
>> > > > i am currently having issues with the setup of the OpenSSL and
>> OpenLDAP portions of my server, but that's another matter.
>> > > >
>> > > > hth
>> > > > peter
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >