Trying to make sieve work

[Ken Murchison]

Quoting "Charrick, Gordon" <gordon.charrick at tfn.com>:

> I've had cyrus-imap working for a few months and I'm trying to get filters
> to work on the server. I'm running Redhat 7.3 by the way.
> 
> I have the following in /etc/cyrus.conf
> 
> SERVICES {
>   imap          cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0
>   sieve         cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
>   lmtpunix      cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp"
> prefork=0
> }
> 
> and it's listening on port 2000. However, when I use sieveshell to try
> anything I get the following:
> 
> [gmc at gmc text]$ sieveshell localhost         
> connecting to localhost
> Please enter your password: xxxxxxxx
> unable to connect to server: Authentication error at /usr/bin/sieveshell
> line 149, <STDIN> line 1.
> 
> The username and password work connecting to the imap server. I have tried
> using the -u option to specify the user and get the same results. I'm
> hoping
> it's something simple and someone will have a quick answer and I don't have
> to go hunting through the perl code to see what's wrong.

Try specifying both -u and -a with the same userid.  If that doesn't work, and 
you are running 2.1.5 or later, try

sivtest -a <userid> -u <userid> localhost

and see what (if any SASL mechs are listed).  If you are running 2.1.4 or 
earlier, simply telnet to the sieve port and check the mechs.

Ken
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