Failed login imap. - work fine with imtest

sam sam.wun at authtec.net
Fri Oct 8 20:19:34 EDT 2004


sam wrote:

> HI,
>
> Yesterday I installed cyrus-imapd22, sasl2+saslauthd and postfix2.1.4 
> in FreeBSd 5.3 system. When I tried to login from a remote system 
> (using telnet/imtest and Mozilla mail client, it has the error showing:
> "pop3[43416]: Unable to locate maildrop for nuser: Mailbox does not 
> exist"
>
> I have created an user called "nuser" in the cyradm prompt.
>
> The cyradm command I used is:
> > cm user.nuser
> createmailbox: Mailbox already exists
> > quit
> This is only verify that Mailbox of nuser does really exist.
>
> The Mailbox I created is shown as below:
> # ls -l /var/spool/imap/
> total 26
> drwxr-x--- 13 cyrus cyrus 512 Oct 8 22:31 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Oct 6 23:07 ../
> drwx------ 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Oct 8 14:55 user^bob/
> drwx------ 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Oct 8 22:31 user^nuser/
>
> What can I do to correct this error?
>
I have also had it tested with imtest, it works fine:
# imtest -a nuser -m login -p imap -v localhost
S: * OK at.mydot.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.8 server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS 
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND 
BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE 
STARTTLS
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN nuser {10}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 OK User logged in
Authenticated.
Security strength factor: 0

> Your help is greately appreciated.
> Thanks
> Sam.
>


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