My conf file looks like this: ########################################## # Global info's ########################################## configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap unixhierarchysep: yes altnamespace: yes imapidresponse: no ########################################## # Authentification & User rights ########################################## admins: cyrus murderbackend murderproxy sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd allowanonymouslogin: no sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN # sasl_auto_transition: yes ########################################## # Quota & Message size limit ########################################## quotawarn: 90 autocreatequota: 10240 # maxmessagesize: 10485760 lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no ########################################## # ACL ########################################## defaultacl: anyone lrs ########################################## # Virtual Domain Support ########################################## virtdomains: yes defaultdomain: starburn.net ########################################## # mupdate parameters ########################################## mupdate_authname: cyrus mupdate_password: SuperSecretPassword :) mupdate_port: 2004 #mupdate_realm: mupdate_retry_delay: 20 mupdate_server: zeus.email.starband.net mupdate_workers_start: 5 mupdate_workers_minspare: 2 mupdate_workers_maxspare: 10 mupdate_workers_max: 50 mupdate_username: cyrus proxyservers: murderproxy
And when I use imtest: [root@draco root]# imtest -u hbeatty -a hbeatty localhost S: * OK draco Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.prealpha server ready C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE MUPDATE=mupdate://zeus.email.starband.net/ S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: L01 LOGIN hbeatty {4} S: + go ahead C: <omitted> S: L01 OK User logged in Authenticated. Security strength factor: 0 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Siemborski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hank Beatty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Cyrus-Info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: Murder and Backend Authentication > 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 >