No Local User Accounts

[Mike Nuss]

Mike Nuss wrote:

> Martin Minogue wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I am writing to see if any might be able to offer suggestions on how 
>> to set
>> up Cyrus IMAP in a way where no local user accounts are necessary.
>>
>> After much Googling I finally convinced sendmail to deliver incoming
>> messages to Cyrus, and send messages out from the ONE account that I 
>> got set
>> up (don't ask me how I did it - but I think its working because the user
>> name is also a local account).
>>
>> My only remaining issue is trying to get Cyrus to allow people to log 
>> in and
>> retrieve their email.  I have created a few accounts using cyradm, and I
>> thought that all I had to do was set a name and password using 
>> saslpasswd,
>> but I cannot log in to any of the accounts that I have created?
>>
>> Suggestions?  Any additional information that I need to provide in 
>> order for
>> someone to offer assistance will be eagerly and promptly provided.  My
>> sincere thanks.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>  
>>
> Are you actually using sasldb for authentication?  Posting your 
> ldap.conf would help.
>
> Mike
>
OK, posting your ldap.conf wouldn't be helpful, but imap.conf might be ;-)

Mike
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