No way to get access via IMAP : REALLY NOTHING WORKS!

[Dennis Leist]

I really need assistance in installing cyrus imap!
Nothing works by now.

1. cyradm CRAM-MD5
Before using cyus-sasl2.1.11 I only got acces via:

#> cyradm --user cyrus --auth CRAM-MD5 localhost

At that time I could set up some mailboxes.

Not even this works by now!
I only get "user not found: no secret in database" in /v/m/imap.log
Though I have set up cyrus-Passwords !!!!!

2.  cyradm LOGIN
I _never_ could get in via PLAIN, LOGIN!

3. I _never_ got access to existing mailboxes via IMAP.

These lines only in /v/m/imap.conf:
badlogin: ... plaintext user1 SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
badlogin: ... CRAM-MD5 [SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database]
I repeat PASSWORDS are SET!

4. POP3 access never worked.

Reason unknown.
NO MESSAGES available.
POP3 access set in /etc/cyrus.conf

5. Mailbox transport via TCP socket only!
I need to set mailbox_transport in /etc/postfix/main.cf this way:
mailbox_transport = lmtp:localhost

It _never_ worked by using unix socket:
mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/imap/socket/lmtp
connection refused was the answer in /v/l/mail



I don't get the WHOLE SOFTWARE work more verbosely.
No efficient links by google.
DOCS don't mention troubles!


SASL2.2.11 configure options:
# ./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-plain --enable-cram 
--enable-login --enable-digest --enable-otp --enable-anon
cyrus-imap2.1.10 options:
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl

Using postfix: and debian 2.2.19pre17.

What else do you need?

/etc/cyrus.conf
<snip>
SERVICES {
  imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0
  imaps         cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0
  pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0
  pop3s         cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=0
  sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0

  lmtp          cmd="lmtpd -a" listen="localhost:lmtp"
  lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp"
}
</snip>

/etc/imap.conf
<snip>
partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news
newsspool: /var/spool/news
admins: cyrus
imap_admins: cyrus
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
allowplaintext: yes
allowanonymouslogin: no
popminpoll: 1
umask: 077
</snip>