Re: IMAP Authentication

Speaking from my own experience working with maia since 2005, I've never
used anything but internal authentication.

I'm not sure if the corner case of imap auth is well maintained, or
survived the conversion to FOSS intact.

Hopefully if someone on this list is using imap, they can share their
insights.

Jake

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 1:19 PM Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> HI,
>
> I am in the process of setting up a new Maia system (FINALLY) to replace
> my old 1.0.2{something} system running on a different machine.  I've
> started from scratch, with a fresh maia database.  That all is working
> great.  But now I'm trying to convert authentication from internal to imap
> (which is how I had it configured on the old system).
>
> I installed php-pear-Net-IMAP and php-imap.
> The configtest.php says PEAR::Net_IMAP and IMAP library are both "OK".
> I have the same username as I did on the old system.
> I am PRETTY sure I have IMAP set up the same as I did on the old system.
> I can log into squirrelmail on the new system, so I know IMAP *can*
> authenticate (and that I know the password).
> However, when I change config.php to say $auth_method = "imap"; I can no
> longer login to maia.
>
> A few things to note:  on Maia I always use <user>@<domain> to login.  On
> Squirrelmail I use <user>.  This is the same <user>.   This worked on the
> old server, but isn't working now.
>
> From the logs, I can see that there is a connection to IMAP, but I can't
> see anything beyond that.  I don't see an error message or even a login
> attempt failure.  The maillog logs just say:
>
> Jan 30 16:08:48 mail cyrus/imap[14657]: inittls: Loading hard-coded DH
> parameters
> Jan 30 16:08:48 mail cyrus/imap[14657]: starttls: TLSv1.3 with cipher
> TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits new) no authentication
>
> When I login via squirrelmail I then get:
>
> Jan 30 15:25:41 mail cyrus/imaps[804]: login: <HOST> [X.X.X.X] <user>
> plaintext+TLS User logged in SESSIONID=<cyrus-804-1612038341-1-....>
>
> I don't see anything like this from maia.  And after the page "times out"
> I have an empty "xlogin.php" screen.
>
> If I change the imap host and port to ssl://<hostname> and port 993, then
> I get xlogin.php that says:
>
> Login for user <user> failed.
> ( not connected! (CMD:LOGIN) )
> [ Try again ] , or contact <admin> for assistance.
>
> This happens regardless of whether I set it up to talk to the new IMAP
> server OR the old IMAP server....
>
> What do I need to do to debug this and get it working?
>
> -derek
>
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>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
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