Cyrus-imap configuration issue

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 10/19/2011 06:40 AM, Rajeshwar Bharathi wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am trying to setup a cyrus imap server. I am using an 32-bit AWS AMI
> on EC2.
>
> I used yum to insatll cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imapd
> The installation went thru fine and I am able to create users using
> saslpasswd2
> when I start cyrus-imapd server it comes up fine
> /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start
>
>
> I have the following configuration files.
> /etc/imapd.conf
> /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
> /etc/sysconfig/sendmail.conf
> /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
>
> I have the following configurations in /etc/imapd.conf
>
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus  root
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: true
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> # uncomment this if you're operating in a DSCP environment (RFC-4594)
> # qosmarking: af13
>
> when I try to test I get the following errors
> test1>>>
> imtest -m login -p imap localhost
> Authentication failed:gebneric error
>
> test2>>>>
>
> cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain
>
>
> Password:
> IMAP Password:
> Login failed: authentication failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as cyrus
>
> Please let me know what config problems i have and how to proceed further.


I believe you need this in imapd.conf to login with plain text passwords.


allowplaintext:yes


>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Raj
>
>
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