Hi guys,
I have postfix and mysql working fine.But when i try to use a webmail like sqwebmail or squirrelmail to get the mails using sasl authentication via rimap,i get a wrong user/password from the webmail and the following from my logs
# tail /var/log/messages

mail imap[18288]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail saslauthd[18258]: auth_rimap: read (response): Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail saslauthd[18258]: do_auth

: auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail imap[18314]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls

SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail imap[18289]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail saslauthd[18257]: auth_rimap: read (response):

Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail saslauthd[18257]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb

5 16:04:44 mail imap[18290]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail imap[18316]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
Feb

5 16:04:44 mail saslauthd[18259]: auth_rimap: read (response): Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail saslauthd[18259]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap]

[realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail imap[18317]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls SASL(-13): authentication failure:

checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:04:44 mail imap[18291]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18255]: auth_rimap: read (response): Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:05:14

mail saslauthd[18255]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18318]: badlogin:

localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18292]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18256]:

auth_rimap: read (response): Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18256]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT]

saslauthd internal error]
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18287]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail

imap[18313]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18258]: auth_rimap: read (response): Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18258]: do_auth :

auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18288]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls

SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18314]: accepted connection
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18257]: auth_rimap: read (response):

Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18257]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb

5 16:05:14 mail imap[18289]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18316]: accepted connection
Feb

5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18259]: auth_rimap: read (response): Interrupted system call
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail saslauthd[18259]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=ls] [service=imap]

[realm=] [mech=rimap] [reason=[ALERT] saslauthd internal error]
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18290]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext ls SASL(-13): authentication failure:

checkpass failed
Feb 5 16:05:14 mail imap[18317]: accepted connection

Can someone help me out?I really don't know what went wrong!

Looks like a SASL/PAM misconfiguration. Print out the files: smtpd.conf, imap.conf, pam.d/imap.