sieveshell and sivtest is not working here :-(

[Andrew Morgan]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, JOYDEEP wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> in my system sieve is not working. I check the user cyrus by imtest.
> the command is "imtest -a cyrus -u cyrus  localhost -s"
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> TLS connection established: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
> S: * OK lvps87-230-8-228.dedicated.hosteurope.de Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12
> server ready
> C: C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * 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
> AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN SASL-IR X-NETSCAPE
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password:
> C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN Y3lydXMAY3lydXMAbWFoYWRldg==
> S: A01 OK Success (tls protection)
> Authenticated.
> Security strength factor: 256
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> now  " sivtest -a cyrus localhost" reports
> ----------------------------------------------------
> S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.2.12"
> S: "SASL" "PLAIN LOGIN"
> S: "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify
> subaddress relational comparator-i;ascii-numeric regex"
> S: "STARTTLS"
> S: OK
> Please enter your password:
> C: AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" {20+}
> AGN5cnVzAG1haGFkZXY=
> S: NO "Authentication Error"
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> where may be the problem here ?
>
>
> Even "sieveshell localhost " is not working too.
>
> see below
> ------------------------
> lvps87-230-8-228:~ # sieveshell localhost
>
> connecting to localhost
> Please enter your password:
> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 169, <STDIN> line 1.
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> here is the log
> --------------------------------
> Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 sieve[3675]: attempting server step
> after doneflag
> Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 sieve[3675]: badlogin:
> lvps87-230-8-228.dedicated.hosteurope.de[127.0.0.1] LOGIN generic failure
> Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 perl: No worthy mechs found
> Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 master[31987]: process 3675 exited,
> status 0
> -----------------------------------
>
> please note I have cyrus-sasl-plain and cyrus-sasl-Login module installed.

Are you using saslauthd with the 'pam' mechanism?  Did you copy 
/etc/pam.d/imap to /etc/pam.d/sieve?

 	Andy