[KLUG Members] SuSE 9.0 Postfix

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > You mean you can send from pine?  If you can see your mail then
> > something is screwed up.  With Cyrus you can ONLY access your mail via
> > IMAP or POP3, there is NO CONCEPT WHATSOEVER of a "local" client;  there
> > is no /var/spool/mail or other such disasterous concept.
> There is a /var/spool/mail dir. This is where postfix drops the mail.
> I can send and receive using pine.

Then cyrus is not configured, if it was there would be no files in
/var/spool/mail.  You need to fix your postfix configuration.

> > > However I can't seem to get IMAP or POP3 
> > > working. It rejects my user name and password. I have all the services 
> > > running and the log file just talks about end of stream.
> > Cyrus authenticates via SASL?  Do you have SASL setup or saslauthd to
> > use whatever authentication repository you use (files, NIS, LDAP,
> > Hesoid, Kerberso, etc...)?
> When I installed SuSE I selected IMAP and POP3 which is Cyrus. I edited 
> xinetd.d/imap and configured them to start restarted xinetd.
> Where do I learn about configuring the SASL stuff. That is a big black 
> spot in my knowledge right now.

On the KLUG server, of course -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf