Basic configuration

[David.Addison at infineon.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: info-cyrus-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:info-cyrus-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Przyswa
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:44 PM
To: Info Cyrus List
Subject: Re: Basic configuration

David.Addison at infineon.com a écrit :
> Hi Sam
>
> Use saslauthd by adding the following lines to /etc/imapd.conf
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: plain
>   

Ok.

> Start saslauthd with
> /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam
> Or
> /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a shadow
> /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a getpwent
>   

I tried each option but I always got:

badlogin: evelyne.arial-concept.com [172.16.0.118] PLAIN [SASL(-16):
encryption needed to use mechanism: security flags do not match required]


> There are other options which might work better on your system but this one works fine for me.
>   

...yes !

Hi Sam,

IIRC, I think this means that you need to have an encrypted connection to the mail server to use the PLAIN auth mechanism. However, I can't find anything in my config files that would affect this and I'm using unencrypted imap connections so I'm guessing. Perhaps someone else can comment.

Dave