On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote: > > > > The sendmail cf file was not copied, but most of the parms were > > > duplicated in the sendmail.mc file and sendmail was rebuilt. No errors. > > > Auth was never working properly since once I put dovecot on, saslauthd > > > was scrambled. Unfortunately, I needed the pop and imap server before I > > > found out auth was failing. > > > > If you are changing things, why not use cyrus instead of dovecot? > > If you're talking cyrus-sasl, then that's a consideration. If you're talking > cyrus imap, I'd have to see what provides pop. > > I'm starting to see where all of my confusion is coming from. Cyrus and dovecot are alternative imap/pop servers with incompatible storage formats and program and configurations. Cyrus is probably more efficient with its own layout - dovecot uses more or less normal mbox or maildirs. Not sure how the saslauthd's relate - but it sounds like your sendmail is configured for cyrus-sasl but dovecot confuses it. yum search cyrus shows a bunch of components. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com