password verification failure

[Michael Jørgensen]

I've started saslauthd, and now I can successfully log in. Thanks for 
your help!

-Michael.


Ken Murchison skrev:
> Is saslauthd configured and running?
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> 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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