[Mimedefang] Cyrus IMAP Server installation problem (error: Cannot continue without libsasl2.)

[Nels Lindquist]

On 15 Oct 2003 at 22:55, Zahid Hossain wrote:

> I find no link for following link command in mimedefang-howto: 
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl2
> I guess because of this (object/library files) I'm having problem to
> install IMAP. 

Actually, /usr/lib/sasl2 is only used for plugins.  If you did a from-
source install of SASL2, the libsasl*.so* files will likely be in 
/usr/local/lib.  Are there any libsasl2.so* files in /usr/local/lib?
 
> Getting following error message:
> ..........................................
> ..........................................
> checking for sasl/saslutil.h... yes
> checking for prop_get in -lsasl2... no
> configure: error: Cannot continue without libsasl2.
> Get it from ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/.

The configure script isn't finding libsasl2.so* for some reason.  
/usr/local/lib may not be in your LIBRARY_PATH; you could try adding
"--with-sasl=/usr/local" to your ./configure line to force the 
location of the sasl2 libraries.

If this doesn't help, you might want to try the Cyrus Project mailing 
lists (only a portion of MIMEDefang list posters also use Cyrus 
IMAPD, whereas almost everyone on the Cyrus list uses it :-):

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

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Nels Lindquist <*>
Information Systems Manager
Morningstar Air Express Inc.