Problems with Outlook Express and cyrus.

[Ken Murchison]

Scott Dexter wrote:
> My bad, I am using cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.15.
> 
> I realize pwcheck is deprecated, I am using exim as a MTA and it
> supports pwcheck, not saslauthd.  

That make no sense.  Either Exim supports SASLv2 or it doesn't.  Only 
the SASL library itself talks to the plaintext verifier (saslauthd, 
pwcheck, etc).

> 
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:56, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>>Since you haven't mentioned which version of Cyrus IMAP or SASL, I'm 
>>going to assume IMAP v2.x and SASL v2.x.  The pwcheck authentication 
>>method is deprecated in SASLv2.  Unless you're authenticating against 
>>some home grown backend database, you should be using:
>>
>>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>
>>and run:
>>
>>saslauthd -a shadow
>>
>>
>>Scott Dexter wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry, I'm currently using pwcheck to auth for exim, so that or
>>>/etc/shadow would do the job.
>>>
>>>Scott
>>>
>>>On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 12:25, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It is definitely a SASL issue.  You need to tell us how you plan to do 
>>>>plaintext authentication (sasldb2, PAM, /etc/shadow, MySQL, etc).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Scott Dexter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Could this possibly be a SASL issue (either in the way it was compiled
>>>>>or configured).
>>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:35, Scott Dexter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I've recently set up a new cyrus IMAPd server and am having problems
>>>>>>getting my Outlook Express client to work well with it.  Keep seeing the
>>>>>>following errors in the logs:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Aug  1 11:50:29 mailsrv imapd[25883]: badlogin: host.domain
>>>>>>[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] plaintext sdexter SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
>>>>>>checkpass failed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am sure this has been covered before, but my digging in the archives
>>>>>>didn't turn up much.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Scott

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