[KLUG Members] help with cyrus imap on debian testing

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am trying to set up a test mail server with postfix/cyrus and I am 
> running into some off inconsistencies.
> I have oreilly books for Postfix and imap and they have some 

Throw the O'Rielly IMAP book into the nearest fire.  It is so incredibly out of
date it is shocking they are still publishing the *#&*(!@^*$&@() thing.

> discrepancies. The Postfix book says to check the config file 
> /etc/cyrus.conf which just does not exist. There is an imapd.conf, but 

You MUST have BOTH a cyrus.conf and an imapd.conf;  if you do not then your
packages a broken. (Don't know anything about Debian packaging).

> it does not have the SERVICES text that I am supposed to be looking for.

Nope, and it shouldn't/

> So I stopped there and went with the imap book. I installed packages for:
> |cyrus-common cyrus-admin cyrus-imapd
> Once these were installed I changed the password for the cyrus user and 
> added it to the admin section in the imapd.conf file.

Why?

> cyradm localhost and entered the username of cyrus and pass I changed to 
> and I get this error:
> application-specific initialization failed: authentication failed

Is Cyrus running?

> Any ideas what I am doing wrong here and why I authenticate for the 
> cyradm? I have checked and pwcheck is running. (it is actually the only 
> imap daemon I can tell is running)

Then it isn't going to work.  You need imapd running.  What version of cyrus is
this? 

> I cannot seem to find any imapd daemon to start/stop and I just feel 
> like I am missing a whole chapter here.
> I also tried following the instructions from this article:
> http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32735.htm

ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf