Trying to get Sieve working

David Korpiewski davidk at cs.umass.edu
Wed Dec 10 14:51:00 EST 2008


That was my problem.   I had "timsieved 2000/tcp" instead of just "sieve 
   2000/tcp".   I fixed that and now it runs properly.

Thank you for your help!
David


Nic Bernstein wrote:
> 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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