Questions... need Sieve primer

[Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster]

Malcolm Locke wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 05:34:52PM -0600, Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:
>> Roland Felnhofer wrote:
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> is that what you want?
>>>
>>> # Mail rules to file Junk
>>> require ["fileinto"];
>>> if allof (header :contains  "X-Spam-Flag" "YES") {
>>>     fileinto "INBOX.Junk";
>>> }
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Roland
>>>
>>> Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I am familiar with what Sieve does, but have never used it. We now 
>> have a need, and I'm struggling to find info on sieve, particularly 
>> relating to Cyrus.
>>>> I want a sieve script that moves all mail marked as junk by spam 
>> assassin (x-spam-flag) into the "Junk" folder (for only one of 4 domains 
>> we host).
>>>> Is this possible, and if so, is there a good place to look for help? 
>> I know my Cyrus has sieve support and the directories are defined, but I 
>> don't know how to enable or install the script, and I have few questions 
>> on sieve scripting in general.
>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>
>>
>> I think so, except I need it to only apply to one mail domain. In other 
>> words, if recipient is part of domain.com1, and X-Spam-Flag is set to 
>> YES, move it into the junk - otherwise do nothing. The reasoning is that 
>> the other domains we host are entirely POP3 based, and mail moved into 
>> junk folders on the server could be detrimental to their work flow.
> 
> Sieve is applied per mailbox, not across the whole server.  To upload
> and enable the sieve script 'mysieve' for mailbox 'joebloggs':
> 
>     $ sieveshell -a joebloggs -u joebloggs cyrusserver
>     # Enter joebloggs IMAP / POP password
>     > put mysieve
>     > activate mysieve
>     > list
>     mysieve <- active script
> 
> You will have to tune the contents of 'mysieve' to your needs, if you
> google 'spamassassin sieve' you should find plenty of examples.
> 
> Malc
> 
>> I have been doing some reading in the mean time, and discovered 
>> sieveshell. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow me to login.
>>
>> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 174, <STDIN>
>> line 1.
>>
>> I checked the logs and it says:
>>
>> Mar 14 17:08:16 fs2 sieve[2714]: executed
>> Mar 14 17:08:16 fs2 sieve[2714]: accepted connection
>> Mar 14 17:08:19 fs2 sieve[2714]: no secret in database
>> Mar 14 17:08:19 fs2 sieve[2714]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 
>> authentication failure
>> Mar 14 17:08:22 fs2 sieve[2714]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] LOGIN 
>> authentication failure
>>
>> Cyrus is set up to use /etc/sasldb2 for authentication. This is where 
>> I'm the most incapable when it comes to Cyrus. I'm lucky I even got the 
>> software to do what it does now.
>>
>> In my imapd.conf, I have:
>>
>> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>> sievedir: /var/lib/sieve
>> admins: cyrus
>> allowanonymouslogin: no
>> reject8bit: no
>> quotawarn: 90
>> timeout: 30
>> poptimeout: 10
>> dracinterval: 0
>> drachost: localhost
>> #sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>> lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no
>> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
>> virtdomains: userid
>> loginrealms: domain1.com domain2.com domain3.com
>> autocreatequota: 102400
>> quotawarnkb: 5120
>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>> altnamespace: yes
>> allowplaintext: yes
>> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5
>>
>> saslauthd is set up to use pam and is running (the default config for 
>> the rpm). I have /etc/pam.d/imap and /etc/pam.d/sieve. But given I am 
>> using /etc/sasldb2, shouldn't it look there before defaulting to 
>> saslauthd in the first place?
>>
>> I am running SLES 10 on x86_64 (EM64T)
>>
>> Jason Bailey, Web/IT Administrator
>> Sun Advocate / Emery County Progress
>> webmaster at sunad.com / webmaster at ecprogress.com
>> (435) 637-0732 (ext 31)
>>
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> 


Okay... sieve is per mailbox. That actually works out to my benefit.

So how do I get sieveshell to let me login? The authentication aspects 
of Cyrus are my weakest spot... I don't know what I'm doing. All I know 
is that it won't let me login. Documentation is spotty at best. What now?

The imaptest works, logins directly through cyrus (or cyradm, for that 
matter) work fine. But sieveshell doesn't.

Ideas?