Re: Can't connect to public imapd cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu. GSSAPI problems

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> I just tried creating an nnimap server for the cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu
> machine, which
> 	<http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/>
> lists as holding a the cyrus imapd mailing list archive on a public
> access IMAP server.

Try this method instead (from the manual):

             (nnimap "cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu"
                     (nnimap-authenticator anonymous)
                     (nnimap-list-pattern "archive.*")
                     (nnimap-stream network))

> When I pressed SPC on this server to list the available groups, the
> following happened:

They got a gazillion groups, the list-pattern limits it to interesting
groups.

> www.google.com seems to indicate that imtest is a command line IMAP
> test tool.  A search on <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages> finds
> it as part of the cyrus-imapd debian package, which my client machine
> doesn't have installed.  Does it need to have it to be able to use
> GSSAPI?  Whatever that is...?  google seems to indicate that it is an
> API, and so does the name.  But the messages over seems to indicate
> that it is some kind of secure connection...?

And since you don't have an account at the machine, you need to tell
nnimap to login anonymously.  GSSAPI means Kerberos 5, in this case.