how do I get imap working on OSX Server 10.4 - I'm getting a password not accepted error from the mail client when I try to connect.
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Answers by: baelzubaboon
I ran into a similar problem when attempting to get OpenLDAP running on my Linux server. The problem was that I was entering passwords in clear text while the LDAP server was expecting MD5 hashes. A couple of possible solutions for this would be to configure the server to accept cleartext passwords (easy but not secure), generate the MD5 hash of your desired password manually and enter that in the LDAP insertion or use an administrative tool that does the hashing for you.
If the LDAP server is configured to use hashed passwords then it will pass that information to the client software, which will hash your password entry. Unfortunately, if you used a simple LDAP insertion (such as ldapadd with OpenLDAP), the server did not hash the password when inserting in into the database. Therefore the server is comparing the hash of your password to the cleartext of your password which, naturally, doesn't match.
Unfortunately I'm running Linux, not OS X but I assume that the configuration would be similar.
Wow... talk about screwing up. I just realized you're setting up IMAP, not LDAP.