beginner's question

[Chris Hilts]

> thing is: I can't log me in. Although Cyrus is up and running (telnet
> localhost imap: "cyrus imap4 2.1.9 server ready"), when I try e.g. LOGIN
> cyrus, it will say LOGIN BAD please login first.

Just to be very clear, you can't just send LOGIN user pass and hope it
works, you have to follow the IMAP protocol.  Include a command tag at the
beginning.  For more detail, see RFC2060.  If you're already doing this,
er, then ignore this message ;)

a01 LOGIN youruser yourpass
<success or failure>
a02 LOGOUT

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Chris Hilts
chilts at birdbrained.org