Have you created a mailbox for that user? You cant login unless the user has a inbox.. Initialy login with the user 'cyrus' (which should be in the "admins:" line in your imapd.conf).. This account will need a password, so do whatever it takes in your setup to create a 'real' cyrus account.
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 22:00, Mike Allen wrote: > Gentlemen: > > When I run 'imtest' on my system, I get the following failure: > -->: snip <-- > S: A01 NO user not found > Authentication failed. generic failure > Security strength factor: 256 > > . logout<< manually typed-in because it stalled here. > > * BYE LOGOUT received > . OK Completed > Connection closed. > > saslpasswd appears to have the correct user/passwd combo. I don't > know what to do next. My system is FreeBSD 5.1 with cyrus-imapd2 port > installed(cyrus-imapd version 2.1.15). My configuration file is attached. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. > > Mike Allen