What SASL mechanism are you using between your frontend and backends? Or rather, what mechanisms are your backends advertising?
-Rob On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Hank Beatty wrote: > I'm working on getting a Murder setup and I can authenticate and pull mail > directly from the backend server. > > However, when I try to proxy the connection I get this in /var/log/messages > on the proxy/master: > > Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: login: SERVER[192.168.247.241] hbeatty > plaintext > Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: couldn't authenticate to backend server: no > mechanism available > Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: couldn't authenticate to backend server > > I get this in /var/log/imapd.log on the backend server: > > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco pop3[32718]: accepted connection > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco master[32724]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco master[32688]: process 32718 exited, status 0 > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco pop3[32724]: executed > > With this in mind it would seem that when using the proxy the authentication > method is different somehow. Is this correct? > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper