sieve doesn't work

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Vladi Lemurov wrote:

>
>>>    I have debian sarge (stable) installed with cyrus (imapd, pop3,
>>> sieve) 2.1.18 -installed. Everything works fine, except sieve. I have
>>> already delt with cyrus on Freebsd before, I used sieve there so I would
>>> like to put the scripts I already have to this new installation.
>>> I get the following error:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> $sieveshell --user=<user> --auth=<user> localhost
>>>> connecting to localhost
>>>> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 174.
>>>> 
>> 
>> /etc/cyrus.conf, entry for sieve ?
>>
>> 
> in /etc/cyrus.conf:
> sieve           cmd="timsieved -c /etc/imapd.conf" listen="sieve" prefork=1 
> maxchild=100
> in /etc/services:
> sieve           2000/tcp                        # Sieve mail filter daemon
>
> the daemon listens to the port, if I do `telnet localhost 2000` I got the 
> following:
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.1.18-IPv6-Debian-2.1.18-1+sarge2"
> "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify subaddress 
> relational regex"
> "STARTTLS"
> OK

I have a vague recollection of needing to install the debian 
libsasl2-modules package in order to get sieve working.  It had something 
to do with no authentication methods being presented.  libsasl2-modules 
contained libplain.so, which was all I really cared about.

 	Andy