I have been trying to authenticate using the same account database as my Cyrus imap server. I can''t even seem to get very useful debugging output. I would appreciate any help. Following suggestions earlier on this list, I run (as root) exim -d -oX 198.144.201.14.27 -bd 2>&1 and ran swaks on the client. The terminal running exim shows a lot of information (see below), but absolutely nothing when I try to connect to it. The client clearly shows a session initiated and challenge and failed response. When I upped the sasl log level to 5 my authentication log on the server showed exim4: no secret in database I am puzzled that I can''t get more diagnostics out of the server. Any suggestions? Also, obviously, I would like to get this working! I have verified that the user/password combination works for the IMAP server. Everything is TLS encrypted. Details: Running on Gnu Linux 2.6.18 exim4-daemon-heavy 4.68-2 libsasl2-modules 2.1.22.dfsg1-16 I ran in an emacs shell inside of screen, connected via ssh. I tried running outside of emacs (still inside screen) with the same results. -------------- exim config ------------------------- cram_md5_sasl_server: driver = cyrus_sasl public_name = CRAM-MD5 server_realm = betterworld.us server_set_id = $auth1 -------------/usr/lib/sasl2/exim.conf------------------------ mech_list: PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 allowapop: no minimum_layer: 0 pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sasldb auto_transition: no log_level: 50 # I later added sasldb_path: /etc/sasldb2 # but it didn''t help --------------------------- misc ------------------------------- -rw-rw---- 1 root sasl 49152 2006-07-20 22:31 /etc/sasldb2 exim runs under Debian-exim, which is a member of the sasl group ------------ terminal session on server ----------------- # date; exim -d -oX 198.144.201.14.27 -bd 2>&1 Thu Jan 10 14:30:50 PST 2008 Exim version 4.68 uid=0 gid=0 pid=4186 D=fbb95cfd Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective uid=0 gid=0 pid=4186 auxiliary group list: <none> seeking password data for user "uucp": cache not available getpwnam() succeeded uid=10 gid=10 seeking password data for user "cyrus": cache not available getpwnam() succeeded uid=112 gid=8 configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated log selectors = 00000ffc 00612001 cwd=/var/log/exim4 5 args: exim -d -oX 198.144.201.14.27 -bd trusted user admin user seeking password data for user "mail": cache not available getpwnam() succeeded uid=8 gid=8 seeking password data for user "cyrus": cache not available getpwnam() succeeded uid=112 gid=8 Cyrus SASL knows about: CRAM-MD5 Cyrus SASL driver cram_md5_sasl_server: CRAM-MD5 initialised user name "root" extracted from gecos field "root" originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=root 4186 local_interfaces overridden by -oX: 4186 <: 198.144.201.14.27 4186 listening on 198.144.201.14 port 27 4186 changed uid/gid: running as a daemon 4186 uid=103 gid=103 pid=4186 4186 auxiliary group list: 45 103 4186 LOG: MAIN 4186 exim 4.68 daemon started: pid=4186, no queue runs, listening for SMTP on [198.144.201.14]:27 4186 set_process_info: 4186 daemon: no queue runs, listening for SMTP on [198.144.201.14]:27 4186 daemon running with uid=103 gid=103 euid=103 egid=103 4186 Listening... # everything above here preceded client connection # and nothing more appears after that. other logs show 2008-01-10 14:31:13 cram_md5_sasl_server authenticator failed for x.y.z.mindspring.com (localhost) [69.999.999.999]: 535 Incorrect authentication data # client identity manually obscured in preceding line