Problems with murder on debian

[Simon Matter]

> Thanks for you answer Dan.
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
>
>> On 02/07/10 20:55 -0400, Oscar Nuñez wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I have an Cyrus murder (on Debian Lenny) that is very small: 1 mupdate,
>>> 1
>>> frontend and 1 backend.
>>>
>>> The backend and mupdate is ok. The problem is the frontend.
>>>
>>
>> Are you using the stock Debian versions or something different?
>
>
> I'm using the package from the repository of debian lenny, ie:
> cyrus-admin-2.2; cyrus-clients-2.2; cyrus-common-2.2;cyrus-imapd-2.2 and
> cyrus-murder-2.2
> all of them in the version 2.2.13-14+lenny3.
>
>
>>  When I try to access through SELECT INBOX to a user account from
>> frontend
>>> to
>>> backend the follow error appear:
>>> . NO Server(s) unavailable to complete operation
>>>
>>> In the log appear:
>>> connect(server) failed: Invalid argument
>>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/8135993.html
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg32167.html
>>
>> Here appear some problems with the package of debian, meabe must install
> Cyrus from source.
>
>
>>
>> The two threads above focused on the proxyd authentication between the
>> frontend and backend. Verify that you can proxy authenticate on the
>> frontend, i.e.:
>>
>> imtest -v -m plain -a frontend -u <proxied_user> <backend host/ip>
>>
>>
> I checked the authentication from frontend to backend with the command
> imtest and is OK, no problem.
>
>
> Check /var/log/auth.log on the backend for errors.
>>
>> Check your mailboxes db on the front end (ctl_mboxlist -d), and make
>> sure
>> that the frontend can resolve the name of the backend server name that
>> appears in your mailbox list. For instance, if your mailboxes list
>> claims
>> that user.jsmith resides on 'backend', you may need to put that in your
>> /etc/hosts.
>>
>> The frontend resolve the name of the backend.
>
>> --
>> Dan White
>>
>
> I will try to install cyrus from source. Maybe this error be a bug of the
> debian package.

I'm not a Debian user but I think you may have luck finding more current
Cyrus packages so you don't have to install from source. Maybe those who
know more about Debian can tell you something.

Simon