issues with recent updates and mail server help

[Roger Grosswiler]

Hi Douglas,

Here a short check-list for cyrus-imapd:

a) do 'ps -ef | grep saslauthd' if you just get back your grep-line, saslauthd is not running and you cannot
authenticate at all. 'service saslauthd start' runs it. don't forget to 'chkconfig --level 2345 salsauthd on' to start
it automatically on boot-time.

b) can you telnet to your port 143? do 'telnet localhost 143' in your shell if no, has your cyrus-imapd-daemon
started? find someting like /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-master -d when you do ps -ef

c)if you've up with your connection and opened your telnet-session, just try and type 'a01 login username "password" '
(yes use the " when typing the passwords)

d) if you got connected and authenticated, it works. do 'a02 logout' ,this logs off your imap-session in the shell

some errors i do always, while installing cyrus:

- taking the false rpm's (seems not possible, delivered with FC2-T1)
- not running saslauthd
- hiding port 110/143 behind the firewall
- wrong access-rights on the socket
- false entries in /etc/imapd.conf:
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
...those are right...

..should perhaps try to install it too on my FC2-"machine"

HTH, say if its working or not
Roger