Every time I have to mess with cyrus-imap mailboxes I spend a half hour trying to figure out how to get cyradm to run. While I have by no means figured it all out, I do have one piece of lore worthy of being written down.<\/p>\n
My imap server forbids plaintext logins unless they are within a TLS session, so \/etc\/imapd.conf has the setting allowplaintext: 0<\/p>\n
But, cyradm uses imap authentication (witness all the failed attempts to get cyradm to authenticate putting entries in the \/var\/log\/secure log using pam_unix imap:auth). The problem of course is that cyradm doesn’t have a tls session, so allowplaintext rejecting the plaintext password.<\/p>\n
Reset \/etc\/imapd.conf to allowplaintext:1 temporarily, systemctl restart cyrus-imapd, and then, as root,\u00a0 cyradm tarragon. Make all the mailboxes you want. Then reverse and turn plaintext back off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every time I have to mess with cyrus-imap mailboxes I spend a half hour trying to figure out how to get cyradm to run. While I have by no means figured it all out, I do have one piece of lore worthy of being written down. My imap server forbids plaintext logins unless they are … Continue reading Cyrus-Imap Administration<\/span>