On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Frank Purmann wrote:
> I have installed cyrus-imap-2.2, cyrus_murder-2.2, cyrus-admin-2.2,
> cyrus-pop3d-2.2, sasl2-bin, libhtml-parser-, cyrus-clients-2.2,
> libsasl2-modules on a debian etch 32bit.
>
> Mupdate works fine and the backend servers too. On the front end I can login
> (which is as I understand is done locally) but I can not SELECT the mailbox.
> The error messages says in imap: NO Server(s) unavailable to complete
> operation
>
> It seems that it can not access/connect/find the backend server. The message
> in syslog says:
>
> Dec 5 16:53:08 vm-front32 cyrus/imap[12085]: connect(vm-imap32) failed:
> Invalid argument
>
> Which means that at least the backend server name (vm-imap32) is known. It
> is also possible to access the mailbox with imtest -u xxx -a xxx vm-imap32
> from the frontend.
>
> The relevant entries in imapd.conf are listed below:
>
> Frontend/imapd.conf:
>
> proxyservers: cyrus
> vm-imap32_password: xxx
> vm-imap32_mechs: PLAIN LOGIN
> proxy_authname: cyrus
> proxy_password: xxx
>
>
> Backend/imapd.conf:
>
> proxyservers: cyrus
> proxy_authname: cyrus
On the backend, is the user "cyrus" listed as an admin in imapd.conf?
Also, what do you see in the logs on the backend when you see the error
"connect(vm-imap32) failed: Invalid argument"?
Andy
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