Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:31, Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
>>Been running courier-imap for about 2 years now. No complaints, but I thought 
>>I'd ask for comments on IMAP servers out there today.
>>
>>Comments?
> 
> 
> Whats wrong with courier?
> 
> Well, after realizing what an inflexible ugly hack uw-imap is, I went
> looking for something else. I tried cyrus, but its total lack of current
> documentation made me completely unable to make it work. To make
> accounts you apparently have to log IN first, but there was no
> documentation on how you get IN in the first place. Bootstrap account? I
> couldn't find one documented. I finally got frustrated enough, said F*CK
> THIS NOISE and tried courier. It dropped right in and worked without a
> problem.

I added:

sasl_pwcheck_method:    saslauthd

to my imapd.conf file and was able to log in to cyrus as root.

This calls saslauthd when there is a log in attempt which is a suid 
program that reads /etc/shadow.

LB


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