Trying to get Sieve working

[Nic Bernstein]

Does your /etc/services file have an entry for sieve?  Mine (FreeBSD 7) is :
    sieve        2000/tcp

Of course yours should refer to whichever port you are using (typically 
2000).

Cheers,
    -nic

David Korpiewski wrote:
> This is a very odd problem that I can't seem to dig up much information 
> on.  I think the problem itself is very simple, I just don't know how to 
> rectify it:
>
> I am trying to set of Sieve filtering on a 10.5.4 OSX mail Server. 
> However, when I turn on the mail server, timsieved is never running!  In 
> the logs I get:
>
> "nodename nor servname provided, or not known, disabling sieve"
>
> At startup when I bring up the mail server (serveradmin start mail).
>
>
> I don't understand what is missing to get sieve running.   Does anyone know?
>
> The error "nodename nor servname provided" is a very common error having 
> to do with the "getaddrinfo".
>
> Any help would be wonderful and very much appreciated.
> Thank you
> David
>   


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