Questions... need Sieve primer

[Roland Felnhofer]

How did you create your imap/cyrus accounts - what is your =

authentication source?
sasldb2, passwd, ldap (which I prefer) ???

Best regards
Roland


Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:
> 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)
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
>>> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki
>>> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>
>
>
> 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?
> ----
> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
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