How to test timsieved

[Paul van der Vlis]

Dan White schreef:

> I just did some quick testing on my system and cannot authenticate to
> timsieved as a user who's mailbox does not exist.
> 
> I have a mailbox for dwhite at olp.net, but not dwhite. Here's the results of
> a few tests:
> 
> Works:
> imtest -a dwhite -m PLAIN localhost
> imtest -a dwhite at olp.net -m PLAIN localhost
> sivtest -a dwhite at olp.net -m PLAIN localhost
> 
> Doesn't work:
> sivtest -a dwhite -m PLAIN localhost
> 
> Based on that, I'm assuming that a mailbox for paul needs to exist to
> authenticate. Is that that the case?

Ah, that was the problem ;-)

Mail for user paul on this machine is forwarded to somewhere else, so
there is no mailbox for this user...

When I did test it as another user, there was no problem.
Only a wrong test.

Many thanks for your help.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.




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