Authentication system failure in Cyrus Aggregator

[Andrew Morgan]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Oscar Nuñez wrote:

> Hi guys:
>
> I'm configuring a mail system with cyrus with the aggregator concept. The
> servers I have are 1 as backend, 1 frontend and a mupdate.
> The whole system of sending mail through telnet command works correctly,
> however,
> authentication from the frontend to the backend does not work and throws the
> following error:
>
> imap[4628]: accepted connection
> imap[4628]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext john SASL(-13): user
> not found: checkpass failed
>
> waiting for your answers...

Did you configure a proxy auth user?

imapd.conf on your frontend server:

proxy_authname: cyr_proxy
proxy_password: xyz123


imapd.conf on your backend server:

admins: cyrus cyr_proxy
lmtp_admins: cyr_lmtp cyr_proxy
proxyservers: cyr_proxy
proxy_authname: cyr_proxy
proxy_password: xyz123


 	Andy