IMAPD "Authentication failed. generic failure"

[Wesley Craig]

First failure:

On 17 Mar 2008, at 17:18, J.J. Day wrote:
> C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
> S: A01 NO no mechanism available

> Mar 17 14:34:11 dc-mail imaps[5423]: badlogin: dc-mail.training.int  
> [192.168.251.3] PLAIN [SASL(-4): no mechanism available: Couldn't  
> find mech PLAIN]

PLAIN authN wasn't an option.  Presumably you get this error because  
you haven't allowed plain text authN and aren't using TLS.

Second failure:

> C: S01 STARTTLS
> S: S01 OK Begin TLS negotiation now
> C: C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA  
> MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT  
> CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT  
> THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE IDLE URLAUTH
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password:
> C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {5}
> S: + go ahead
> C:
> S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure

> Mar 17 14:44:45 dc-mail imap[5444]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1]  
> plaintext cyrus SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed


This implies that you typed the password wrong, which is always  
possible :)  I'd probably examine your SASL auxprop configs, tho,  
since imap complains that it can't find your auxprop plugin.

:wes

ps I think servername: ought to be something in DNS, i.e., "D-Y-C  
Mail Server" is a poor choice.