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From: larrysb@aol.com (LarrySB)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: IMAP4 on BSDI? (Cyrus??)
Date: 21 Dec 1996 07:51:26 GMT
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I'm trying to get the Cyrus IMAP4  ver. 1.4 to compile and run properly on
BSDI 2.1.

I did get it to compile, after hand tweaking the configure file, and a
little hack on setproctitle.c in the /imapd source files.

When I finally got it in and running, everything seemed to work except for
user authentication.  No matter who you login as, it always comes back
with "bad password nologin".  So I turned on anonymous login with any
password, and bingo, anonymous login worked.  

It would seem that Cyrus and BSDI don't agree on how to do user
authentication.  There's probably more stuff to deal with, but that is as
far as I got.  

Any ideas?  I'd like to implement IMAP4 mail, but the budget will probably
only allow a "freeware" server.  I also have a binary only distribution of
BSDI 2.1.  Cyrus is the only server I've found so far. Maybe I should look
at something else?

Thanks, and email would be appreciated.