Fixed: was Re: Authentication problem between 2.3.16 back-end and 2.2.12 mupdate and front-ends

[Michael D. Sofka]

Michael D. Sofka wrote:
> 
> Trying this on the 2.3.16 server, built from Simon Matter's source RPM 
> on a RE5 server I get:
> 
> Hacker[901]:mupdatetest -v -p 3905 -a g_murder imap-fe1.server.rpi.edu
> S: * AUTH "LOGIN" "PLAIN"
> S: * STARTTLS
> S: * PARTIAL-UPDATE
> S: * OK MUPDATE "imap-fe1.server.rpi.edu" "Cyrus Murder" 
> "v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-20" "(master)"
> Authentication failed. no mechanism available
> Security strength factor: 0

And so on.

The problem was the cyrus-sasl-plan and cyrus-sasl-gssapi were not 
installed.  Once there were installed mupdatetest and ctl_mboxlist -m 
worked.

I was able to transfer an account from the 2.2.12 back-end to the 2.3.16 
backend.

Mike

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