starting bincimap with ubuntu hardy

Have you try to find the Answer in the FAQ of the bincimap-Developers:

http://www.bincimap.org/bincimap-faq.html

Hope this provide you an Answer for an Problem

Hi Martin,

Apologies, I forgot to mention, that I looked already at the FAQ.
It's just, that if it contains the answer, then I don't understand it.

My problems are basically:
- when do I have to call bincimapd
- when do I have to call bincimapup
- probably I have to setup / configure imapd or something similiar, but how

Below more details:
The ubuntu package varies slightly from what the FAQ mentions:

The config files are not stored in /etc/opt/bincimap but in
 /etc/bincimap
and the binaries are located in
/usr/sbin

The only existing config file is bincimap.conf
( I used find '/etc | grep -i binc' to search

Nothing about
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/service/imap/run
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/service/imaps/run
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/xinetd/imap
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/xinetd/imaps

All that I changed in the config file is
Authentication::allow plain auth in non ssl = "yes"

as it was set to know and as I first wanted to test without SSL.

calling
/usr/sbin/bincimap_up
or (as on the bincimap-up man page)
bincimap-up /bin/ch --conf=/etc/bincimap/bincimap.conf /bin/checkpassword /usr/sbin/bincimapd Maildir
( especially /bin/checkpassword doesn't exist on ubuntu and I don't know the equivalent)

seems to result bothwith the same result, which is
that I get output on std out and bincimap seems to wait for messages on stdin

The output is:
* OK Welcome to Binc IMAP Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Andreas Aardal Hanssen at 2008-10-16 14:26:15 +0200

The fact that it works with stdin/stdout means probably, that an inetd had to be configured
However I don't find anything with
find /etc | grep -i inet

So I'm a little at a loss how to get this thigny started

bye

B

Hm,

I'm a step further:
what happened is, that I installed (amongst others)
bincimap
  and
bincimap-run (the package containing startup stuff and quite some config files)

However the installation of bincimap-run failed due to a configuration conflict.

Now the server starts up, My mailclient is being asked to accept the certificate
but still refuses to accept my password

The password problem was 'rather' quickly fixed.

The passwordfile ~/Maildir/.password has to contain a cleartext password AND it has to have user only read permissions