why does salspasswd2 always append a realm?

[Marten Lehmann]

Hello,

>> So I really need to login without a realm.
> 
> Wrong.  You need a login where the realm matches the hostname of the  
> machine, which will solve the problem for you.

Even while using "virtdomains: userid"?

> If you check the sasl  
> debug, you'll see that "no realm" becomes the result of gethostbyname () 
> during the sasl query.

Well, would it also be possible to set this in imapd.conf:

admins: cyrus
defaultdomain: imap.localhost

and add a user cyrus at imap.localhost in sasldb?

Regards
Marten