Authentication failed. generic failure

[Ken Murchison]

Jeff Warnica wrote:
> Have you created a mailbox for that user? You cant login unless the user
> has a inbox.

This is only true for POP3.  You don't need an INBOX in order to 
authenticate to an IMAP server.


. Initialy login with the user 'cyrus' (which should be in
> the "admins:" line in your imapd.conf).. This account will need a
> password, so do whatever it takes in your setup to create a 'real' cyrus
> account.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 22:00, Mike Allen wrote:
> 
>>Gentlemen:
>>
>>When I run 'imtest' on my system, I get the following failure:
>>-->: snip <--
>>S: A01 NO user not found
>>Authentication failed. generic failure
>>Security strength factor: 256
>>
>>. logout<< manually typed-in because it stalled here.
>>
>>* BYE LOGOUT received
>>. OK Completed
>>Connection closed.
>>
>>saslpasswd appears to have the correct user/passwd combo.  I don't
>>know what to do next.  My system is FreeBSD 5.1 with cyrus-imapd2 port
>>installed(cyrus-imapd version 2.1.15).  My configuration file is attached.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>>
>>Mike Allen
> 
> 
> 

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