Sieve Authentication Fails

[Igor Brezac]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Simon Matter wrote:

>> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:24 -0800, Dan Perez wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I see that this question has been posted before, but I don't see a clear
>>> answer, so forgive me.  Any leads would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> I'm running cyrus 2.2.10, on RHEL 3.0.  It works great.  Now I want to
>>> start
>>> using sieve... but I can't get sieveshell to connect to the server and I
>>> don't understand why.
>>>
>>> [root at app1 log]# sieveshell -u cyrus localhost
>>> connecting to localhost
>>> Please enter your password:
>>> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 169, <STDIN>
>>> line 1
>> ----
>> saslpasswd cyrus
>>
>> #add password for cyrus to sasldb
>
> Well, if sieve uses saslauthd -> pam to authenticate, there is no need for
> having a sasldb file with cyrus user.
> IIRC the problem is that sieveshell doesn't have the --auth parameter like
> cyradm. The sieve server works, but not sieveshell.

It has --authname and it works fine.  Check man pages.

-- 
Igor
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