Sandy Drobic wrote:
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John, how do you authenticate to your Cyrus? I'm using Courier IMAP If testsaslauthd can't verify your user and password, which you know is working, then logging in to your cyrus imap should be impossible.
How is saslauthd started? Please show output of "ps ax| grep saslauthd". 5023 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a getpwent
What is the content of /etc/imapd.conf?
Unless we can confirm with testsaslauthd that the authentication is working, we shouldn't fiddle with postfix for now.
Sandy
I've had a bit of a breakthrough since we've been 'talking'. Saslauthd is started at boot and responds to the config file /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd. Your previous comment about getpwent, pam and shadow set me thinking, so I've tried each in turn with the same username and password. Getpwent fails to authenticate. Pam and shadow work fine and authenticate for relay. I've checked the mail logs (m.info and m.warn - both confirm this!) and did a 'ps ax| grep saslauthd' each time to verify that the correct method was used. Again, many thanks for your help, Sandy. I've been going round the loop with this for a couple of days now but seem to have broken the circle now. What's even better - my mobile, which caused all this trouble in the first place - has just sent its first email by this route. Next stop TLS! Best regards John