Problems with Outlook Express and cyrus.

[Scott Dexter]

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.  

Scott

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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