imsp and sasl config

[Richard Hopkins]

--On Friday, November 28, 2003 9:19 AM +0000 Richard Hopkins 
<Richard.Hopkins at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi Phil...
>
> --On Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:29 PM +0000 Phil Chambers
> <P.A.Chambers at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I made a major typing blunder when I sent this message before!  I missed
>> "sasl." out  when I copied my options entries, so that is not my
>> solution.  Please take another  look:
>>
>> I have had a very old IMSP version (pre-SASL) running for years without
>> any  problems.  I am trying to get a new version running which uses SASL.
>> No problem  building it, but I can't work out what options to put in
>> /var/imsp/options!
>>
>> I am using saslauthd and that is working fine for my IMAP and POP
>> processes with
>>
>>   allowplaintext: yes
>>   sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>   sasl_mech_list: plain
>>
>> in /etc/imapd.conf.
>>
>> I have the following in my /var/imsp/options:
>>
>>   imsp.sasl.allowplaintext N +
>>   imsp.sasl.pwcheck_method N saslauthd
>>   imsp.sasl.mech_list n (plain)
>>
>> but I get "no mechanism available" when I try to login to IMSP with plain
>> text  password.  (CAPABILITY shows AUTH=PLAIN)
>>
>> What should my IMSP options be please?
>>
>
> (First off I'll mention that you have to use version 1 of SASL with IMSP,
> just in case.)
>
> The only SASL related entry I have in my imsp.options file is...
>
> imsp.sasl.allowplaintext N +
>
> I then have the "pwcheck" method stuff in the file
> /usr/local/lib/imsp.options, as in...
>
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd

Apologies. That should read /usr/local/lib/sasl/imspd.conf, not 
/usr/local/lib/imsp.options

Richard