sieveshell says "sasl mech list empty"

[Alec H. Peterson]

Make sure the permissions on that directory and the files in that directory 
are set properly.

Alec

--On Monday, October 14, 2002 13:27 -0400 Nick Fisher <Nick at nickdafish.com> 
wrote:

> Hello people,
>   I'm having a problem with sieveshell. When I run 'sieveshell localhost'
> I get:
> connecting to localhost
> unable to connect to server: sasl mech list empty at /usr/bin/sieveshell
> line 175.
>
> And when I 'telnet localhost sieve' I get:
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v1.1.0"
> "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify subaddress
> relational regex"
> OK
>
> I can get into IMAP with no problems. I'm using pam_mysql to auth and
> these lines are taken from my imapd.conf:
> allowanonymouslogin:    no
> allowplaintext:         yes
> sasl_pwcheck_method:    saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> I looked in the archives and I found two solutions:
> 1) sasl plugins in the wrong place.
> Now I think there supposed to be in /usr/lib/sasl2 and that's where they
> are. I can't figure out how I would check this or what files I should
> have
> there.
>
> 2) PAM is incorrectly configured
> I have a sieve entry in /etc/pam.d/
>
> Any ideas? I'm a Cyrus newbie and I'm stuck. Is is something to do with
> 'sasl_mech_list' in my imapd.conf? I tryed blindly playing with it but
> got
> nowhere.
>
>   Nick
>
>


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Alec H. Peterson -- ahp at hilander.com
Chief Technology Officer
Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com