Basic configuration

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

check the settings for

allowplaintext
sasl_minimum_layer

in /etc/imapd.conf read the manpage for more details on these options

Quoting 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
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