Many thanks. That pointed me in the right direction (though the specifics of my failure were a bit different).
David On Sunday 06 February 2005 06:16 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > I experienced this yesterday too .... but found the solution. I did get > an error though during emerge as it said that authdaemond was already > provided. What I needed to do was the following to get it working: > > * remove /etc/init.d/authdaemond (it's linked to nothing anyway, and > does not work after the upgrade) > > * re-merge courier-authlib (it will create /etc/init.d/courier-authlib) > > Then was the second issue I experienced... courier-authlib will be > default use mysql to try authenticate you .... with a text editor edit: > /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc (line 33) removing authmysql from the > line, naming it something like: > > authmodulelist="authpam authuserdb authshadow authcustom" > > make sure all courier-imap is shut down properly (I had several stale > /var/lib/init.d/started/courier-* files... delete them and confirm they > aren't runing in `ps aux`). > > * finally restart courier-imap / courier-authlib via /etc/init.d/ > > > Basically what has happened here is that courier-imap has been split up > into several smaller packages, and this obviously didn't go to well with > upgrading. > > Hope this helps everyone ;-) > > Greetings > Ralph > > David Corbin wrote: > > I had a working IMap installation. I did an upgrade that included > > several courier updates. Now I'm having "connection problems". When I > > telnet to it, I get this: > > > > Connected to imap. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > * BYE imaplogin expected exactly two arguments. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > > I never even have the chance to send it a command. > > > > Ideas? > > David > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
