Sieve authentication problem

[Achim Lammerts]

Hello list,

do I get some help about Sieve here too? Some days ago I've added 
authentication by sasldb and today I saw that Sieve doesn't work 
anymore. I can't login to sieveshell from root like "sieveshell --user 
mailuser --authname mailuser localhost", the correct password is not 
accepted. There are these entries in the log file:


Sep  9 12:25:44 salamucha master[7088]: about to exec 
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved
Sep  9 12:25:44 salamucha sieve[7088]: executed
Sep  9 12:25:44 salamucha sieve[7088]: accepted connection
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha PAM-warn[1066]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] 
service=[sieve] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[mailuser] ruser=[<unknown>] 
rhost=[<unknown>]
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha PAM-warn[1066]: function=[pam_sm_acct_mgmt] 
service=[sieve] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[mailuser] ruser=[<unknown>] 
rhost=[<unknown>]
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: transitioning user mailuser to 
auxprop database
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: setpass succeeded for mailuser
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: mkdir /var/lib/sieve/m/mailuser: 
File exists
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: error in actions_setuser()
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha perl: No worthy mechs found
Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha master[6160]: process 7088 exited, status 0


The actual imapd.conf looks like this:


...

sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd auxprop
sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
sasl_auto_transition: yes
sasl_mech_list: plain login
...


Also avelsieve doesn't work correctly before I got this problem above, 
in the meantime I can't use avelsieve too of course (with a similar 
error message). That might be another question and not here, but I like 
to ask about the rights for the Sieve directory. It's set to 600 and the 
owner is cyrus:mail, is that right?


Thanks for your help!

Achim