timsieved & sasl

[Ken Murchison]

Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> I can login to imapd with cyradm, but can't to timsieved with sieveshell.
> What's the difference?
> 
> I'm playing spot the difference, but am running out of clues:
> 
>    % cyradm --user dburs2 localhost
> 
> gets me in, with
> 
>    imapd[376]: login: localhost[127.0.0.1] dburs2 DIGEST-MD5 User logged in
> 
> but
> 
>    % sieveshell --user=dburs2 localhost
>    connecting to localhost
>    Please enter your password:
>    Please enter your password:
>    unable to connect to server: Authentication Error at /usr/local/bin/sieveshell line 175, <STDIN> line 2.

Try:

% sieveshell --user=dburs2 --authname=dburs2 localhost

sieveshell is most likely picking up the userid that is running the
shell on you system (ie, NOT dburs2) and expecting the password to match
that userid.

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