sieve problems

[Ken Murchison]

Marc Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 20:50, Marc Williams wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 19:12, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>>
>>>Am Di, den 07.09.2004 schrieb Marc Williams um 1:45:
>>>What is your /etc/imapd.conf content. Which AUTH MECHs do you use?
>>
>>Thanks for responding Alexander.  I look forward to your posts in the FC
>>lists.
>>
>>The entirety of my imapd.conf is as follows:
>>[root at server1 etc]# cat imapd.conf
>>configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>admins: cyrus
>>sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>>sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>#hashimapspool: true
>>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>sasl_mech_list: pam
>>tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>>tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>>
>>It's *almost* stock.  As I recall, I changed "PLAIN" to "pam" and
>>commented hashimapspool.  The mech listed in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd is
>>"shadow" which shouldn't matter, I believe, since the sasl_mech_list in
>>imapd.conf would override.
> 
> 
> Here I go again, responding to my own post.  I hate when that happens.
> 
> I changed out my imapd.conf so that sasl_mech_list now says "plain" and
> guess what?  It now works.  Which I guess sort of answers the question
> except it's a little disconcerting to know that imapd will handle pam
> but timsieved won't.  Especially since I figured "plain" wouldn't be
> very good security.  Maybe I'll just leave it at "plain" and throw the
> whole thing behind SSL.


You seem confused between SASL mechanisms and plaintext verification 
methods.  You should read this page from the Wiki:

http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/CyrusSaslComponents

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