imap and ldap

[Simon Matter]

> Hi all
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> Again I have a question. I want to setup a mail-server and the users must
> be retrieved from the ldap-server. I have heard from several people and
> read in several guides that it is possible with saslauthd -a ldap and put
> the following option in the imapd.conf:
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
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> But of course when I try to do that I get error messages. The first one is
> when I execute the command saslauthd -a ldap:
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> saslauthd[285] :set_auth_mech   : unknown authentication mechanism: ldap

Did you compile your cyrus-sasl with ldap support? It looks like ldap
support is missing.

Simon

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> the solution is not by using pam because that is not an option in
> saslauthd.
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> The second one is when I try to open a mailbox in outlook express. Then I
> get the messages that on line .... (the line where sasl_pwcheck_method is
> located) that the command is unknown.
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> What am I missing or doing wrong? I hope anyone could help me.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Geert Reijnders
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