Cyrus, sendmail and Cyrus SASL on CentOS4.1

[Simon Matter]

> Hi List
>
>
>
> I recently tried to get the distributed rpm's for CyrusImap, sendmail
> and cyrus sasl that came with CentOS4.1 to act as my IMAP/POP3
> mail-server.
>
>
>
> I'm fairly familiar with this combination, coming from RHEL3 with
> source-built cyrus and sendmail running just fine; however, when I saw
> the rpm's that came with CentOS4.1, I thought it would be good to use
> rpm's since yum could do the updating for me...
>
>
>
> I got everything to work fairly well, except the authentication; users
> can successfully authenticate to collect mail via POP3 and IMAP, but
> when trying to send thru the server, the authentication fails with the
> following:
>
>
>
> Oct 10 16:27:19 apollo saslauthd[2448]: do_auth         : auth failure:
> [user=testing] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=shadow] [reason=Unknown]

This is a problem with sendmail. Cyrus-imapd has nothing to do with it.
Sorry, I can't help you with sendmail and most people on this list won't,
I guess. Maybe you should try a sendmail list.

Simon

>
>
>
> Here is /etc/imapd.conf
>
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>
> admins: cyrus
>
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> hashimapspool: true
>
> lmtpsocket: /var/imap/socket/lmtp
>
> virtdomains: userid
>
> sasl_pwcheck_metd: saslauthd
>
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN
>
> #tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>
> #tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>
> #tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>
> tls_ca_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem
>
> tls_cert_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem
>
> tls_key_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem
>
>
>
> and /etc/cyrus.conf
>
> # standard standalone server implementation
>
>
>
> START {
>
>   # do not delete this entry!
>
>   recover       cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"
>
>
>
>   # this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE
>
> #  idled                cmd="idled"
>
> }
>
>
>
> # UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/lib/imap/sockets
>
> SERVICES {
>
>   # add or remove based on preferences
>
>   imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5
>
>   imaps         cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=1
>
>   pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=3
>
>   pop3s         cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1
>
>   sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
>
>
>
>   # these are only necessary if receiving/exporting usenet via NNTP
>
> #  nntp         cmd="nntpd" listen="nntp" prefork=3
>
> #  nntps                cmd="nntpd -s" listen="nntps" prefork=1
>
>
>
>   # at least one LMTP is required for delivery
>
> #  lmtp         cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0
>
>   lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1
>
>
>
>   # this is only necessary if using notifications
>
> #  notify       cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/notify"
> proto="udp" prefork=1
>
> }
>
>
>
> EVENTS {
>
>   # this is required
>
>   checkpoint    cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30
>
>
>
>   # this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression,
>
>   # Sieve or NNTP
>
>   delprune      cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400
>
>
>
>   # this is only necessary if caching TLS sessions
>
>   tlsprune      cmd="tls_prune" at=0400
>
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> And here is the versions of cyrus and sendmail:
>
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4
>
> cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1
>
> cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.19-5.EL4
>
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1
>
> cyrus-imapd-devel-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1
>
> cyrus-imapd-nntp-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1
>
> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.19-5.EL4
>
> cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.19-5.EL4
>
> cyrus-imapd-murder-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1
>
>
>
> sendmail-8.13.1-2
>
> sendmail-cf-8.13.1-2
>
>
>
>
>
>>From the bits and pieces on forums everywhere it seems that the problem
> is with saslauth?
>
>
>
> I am planning to run multiple virtual hosts on this server and no LDAP.
>
>
>
> Can anyone help me to sort this problem out?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Petre
>
>
>
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