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Date:      Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:29:39 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
To:        James B Byrne <byrnejb@gmx.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CYRUS/imaps[92001]: SASL cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
Message-ID:  <408C76353DA66D507B2F2DB8@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
In-Reply-To: <trinity-bf8612e4-4a63-4a94-a58c-ebf4da9e8c8b-1546972816785@3c-app-mailcom-bs10>
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--On January 8, 2019 at 7:40:16 PM +0100 James B Byrne <byrnejb@gmx.com> 
wrote:

> FreeBSD-11.2p7
>
> I just upgraded the packages on our cyrus_imap server host and now we
> cannot authenticate to read or send email.  We use squirrel-mail
> exclusively and connect directly from the SM host to the IMAP host.  The
> error message we are receiving is the subject line but I repeat it here
> for completeness.
>
> CYRUS/imaps[92001]: SASL cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission
> denied
>
> The only thing that changed was the pkg upgrades on the IMAP and SM
> hosts.  The failure to authenticate errors commenced immediately
> following.
>
> I am using this temporary email address because, obviously, I cannot read
> anything that arrived to my existing mailboxes.  Likewise, this is
> somewhat urgent.  I have been investigating this for the better part of
> three hours and have gotten nowhere.
>
> Any helpful advice is most welcome.

Who owns /var/run saslauthd? If it's not cyrus, that's probably your 
problem.

chown -R cyrus:mail /var/run saslauthd

Paul Schmehl, Retired
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