Cyrus-Imapd and Cyradm

[Douglas Furlong]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 01:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb Tom McLoughlin um 2:23:
> 
> > 'Cyradm --user cyrus localhost' brings a prompt for 'IMAP password'.
> > I enter the password xxxxx which I created 'passwd cyrus'
> > I get the 'Login failed: generic failure
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> > line 118'
> > This region of the perl script has something to do with overheading.
> 
> It is just a general error message. Take as authentification failure.
> You see more in the /var/log/maillog.
> 
> > Therefore I cannot yet authenticate -- no connection to the server
> > And cannot create mailboxes...
> > I am so close; could you help me a little further?
> 
> > Tom
> 
> Make sure both the cyrus-imapd is running as well the saslauthd!
> 
> service cyrus-imapd status
> service saslauthd status
> 
> By default the saslauthd does not run, so start it with "service
> saslauthd start".

You may also want to run "chkconfig --level 345 cyrus-imapd on" and
"chkconfig --level 345 saslauthd on" This will set these services to
start on the next reboot.

Doug