Problem restoring cyrus environment on backup machine

[Nathan Wiebe]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:52, you wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2004 18:43 schrieb Nathan Wiebe:
> >  Hi, I've setup a Cyrus server (Invoca rpms 2.2.3) on RHEL 3.  I'm
> > backing up all our email, and testing the restore on a second machine.
> >
> >  I'm having trouble authenticating users on the backup machine using
> > sasl_pwcheck_method:auxprop (/etc/sasldb2).  When I try to authenticate
> > agaist the imap server, my maillog tells me "... SASL(13): user not
> > found: checkpass failed".  I've concluded this is because the
> > realm/domain is different on the production and backup machines.  When I
> > create a new user on the backup machine, in the same manner as on the
> > production machine, it works just fine.  Of course sasldblistusers2
> > reports different realms for the users.
> >
> >  The part that I don't understatd is that I've turned on virtual domains
> > in /etc/imapd.conf and I still can't authenticate as
> > user at full.name.of.production.machine on the backup machine.
> >
> >  Am I missing something?
>
> It is the "servername" Value in /etc/imapd.conf or if unset gethostname(2).

 Setting servername did it, thanks!

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