Not seing SASL auth metchanisms from sieve

[Igor Brezac]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:49:39PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:55:51AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > > $ telnet [host] 2000
> > > "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.2.3"
> > > "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify subaddress relational regex"
> > > OK
> > >
> > > Any reason I don't see the SASL auth mechanisms? Cyrus IMAPd is
> > > working fine against saslauthd/pam. My main problem is that sieveshell
> > > won't connect to [host] and I think the lack of displaying the SASL
> > > auth mechanisms is the cause.
> >
> > BTW, imapd doesn't display the auth mechanisms either:
> > $ telnet [host] imap
> > a001 CAPABILITY
> > * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS
> > NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND
> > BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE
> > IDLE
>
> Ok, I looked at the sieve_get_handle() function in
> perl/sieve/managesieve/managesieve.xs. It errors out if no SASL auth
> mechanisms are displayed:
>   mechlist=read_capability(obj);
>   if(!mechlist) {
>         globalerr = "sasl mech list empty";
>         XSRETURN_UNDEF;
>   }
>
> So, that's definitely my problem. Anyone with ideas as to why I don't
> see any auth mechanisms displayed? Should I query the cyrus-sasl
> mailing list?
>

You must be using plaintext mechs (plain, login).  These mechs will show
only when you protect the transport (use tls).  It looks like you did not
configure tls.

-- 
Igor
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