password verification failure

[Ken Murchison]

Is saslauthd configured and running?


Michael Jørgensen wrote:
> This must really be a neewbie problem .-(
> 
> I'm trying to connect to my IMAP server using Thunderbird. I'm not 
> interested in SSL, so in Thunderbird I selected the radio button "TLS, 
> if possible". However, Thunderbird refuses to talk to the IMAP server, 
> and disconnects immediately after receiving the initial greeting from 
> the IMAP server.
> 
> Then I tried running IMAP over SSL and selected the radio button "SSL" 
> in Thunderbird. Now it asks for my username and password, and then 
> fails! In the file /var/log/maillog I see the lines:
> Feb  2 20:44:40 mij-6 imaps[5690]: badlogin: [10.0.0.105] plain 
> [SASL(-1): generic failure: Password verification failed]
> Feb  2 20:44:43 mij-6 imaps[5690]: badlogin: [10.0.0.105] plaintext mij 
> SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
> 
> The file /etc/imapd.conf contains the following lines:
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: true
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> 
> I'm running the latest Fedora Core, the version of the IMAP server is 
> cyrus-imapd-2.3.9-7.fc8. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University