mail server setup
 

I'm trying to set up a simple mail server using this tutorial "http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:misc:postifx_with_cyrus". I have completed all the tasks until:

# cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain
localhost>cm user.slackware_user
localhost>lm
localhost> quit

when I try to run "cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain", I don't get a prompt, just a blank line, so I can't complete the task.

I should probably add that I uninstalled and rebuilt cyrus-sasl using the source from slackware.com with a modified SlackBuild to configure --enable-plain and --disable-digest

Did you try with sendmail ?

I am using slackware with sendmail for may years
without any problem.

For using cyrus-sasl with sendmail, read the post below.

For using SSL, there is a problem with openssl-1.0.1i but
simply use stunnel do the trick.

If you need help starting Sendmail, I can try to help you.

Richard

There is no link below your post, and besides I think you are missing the point. The OP is talking about cyrus-imap not cyrus-sasl.
It has nothing to do with sendmail versus postfix either.

Eric

You should not have to recompile the package with these added parameters. The PLAIN mechanism is enabled by default, and DIGEST-MD5 can be disabled at runtime by not adding it to thhe mech_list but instead just mentioning
Eric

He meant http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...l2-4175516911/