does xfer require murder?

[Patrick Radtke]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>> Perry Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here is what my imapd.conf looks like:
>>>>
>>>> defaultpartition: imap1
>>>> configdirectory: /var/imap
>>>> partition-imap1: /var/spool/imap1
>>>> admins: cyrus support
>>>> srvtab: /var/imap/srvtab
>>>> quotawarn: 85
>>>> popminpoll: 0
>>>> autocreatequota: 30000
>>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>>> lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure: 1
>>>> allowusermoves:yes
>>>> proxy_authname: cyrus
>>>> proxy_password: password
>>>> proxyservers: cyrus
>>>
>>> Just tested XFER on 2.2.13 and it works fine.  Your problem is  
>>> that you've specified the password for a machine named 'proxy'.   
>>> Presumably, you want:
>>>
>>> server1_password: password
>>> server2_password: password
>>>
>>> on the respective machines
>> I have a test murder environment running with v2.2.12.  I've been  
>> using proxy_authname and proxy_password on my frontend server just  
>> fine.  The man page says that those parameters set the defaults  
>> for connecting to a backend, but they an be overridden with  
>> hostname specific versions.
>
> Hmm.  You're right.  Then I'd try using imtest to connect to the  
> backends using the proxy_authname and proxy_password to see what  
> its complains about.

Also try testing it with out the 'srvtab' line and with
force_sasl_client_mech: PLAIN

The machine might be trying to do some kerberos stuff and I'm  
thinking you just want to use PLAIN

-Patrick