imapsync & proxy user

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:32 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> imapsync-1.188 cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-27
> 
> This works:
> ./imapsync \
>   --host1 scratch --user1 adam \
>   --authmech1 PLAIN --password1 ******* --ssl1 \
>   --host2 sardine --user2 adam  \
>   --authmech2 LOGIN --password2 ****** --ssl2
> 
> But I can't get the proxy user to work:
> ./imapsync  \
>   --host1 scratch --user1 steve --authuser1 adam  \
>   --authmech1 PLAIN --password1 ***** --ssl1 \
>   --host2 sardine --user2 steve --authuser2 adam  \
>   --authmech2 LOGIN --password2 ***** --ssl2

Doh!  It was "--authmech2 LOGIN".  Apparently you can't proxy using
LOGIN but have to use a 'real' SASL mechanism.  Switching "--authmech2
LOGIN" to "--authmech2 PLAIN" worked.

> I need to sync a whole bunch of user's accounts.
> With the second example it fails with: "Error login : [scratch] with
> user [steve] : 1 NO Login failed: authentication failure"
> I have - 
> proxyservers: cyrus adam
> admins: cyrus adam
> - in imapd.conf on both sides.
> I also tried "proxy_authname: adam" which I saw in a post, although it
> doesn't seem to relate.