NOTICE: Debian is moving sieve to its IANA allocated port (4190)

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Fri Dec 11 05:06:12 EST 2009


> On 09/12/09 09:49 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:10 -0500, Matt Selsky wrote:
>>> Has any client software been updated to use port 4190?
>>
>>Not that I've seen.
>>
>>---
>>Ahh, Debian, you make me love CentOS more every day.
>
> I've filed a bug (#559923) against Debian's Avelsieve package to change

I've just included this patch in my squirrelmail rpms because I'm not
happy with hardcoded port numbers:

--- avelsieve/config/config_sample.php.orig     2009-05-05
10:05:48.000000000 +0200
+++ avelsieve/config/config_sample.php  2009-12-11 10:54:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -40,10 +40,11 @@
 /* =================== ManageSieve Backend Options
======================== */
 /*
========================================================================
*/

-/* Port where timsieved listens on the Cyrus IMAP server. Default is
2000. */
+/* Port where timsieved listens on the Cyrus IMAP server. */

 global $sieveport;
-$sieveport = 2000;
+if(($sieveport = getservbyname('sieve', 'tcp')) == false)
+    $sieveport = 2000;

 /**
  * @var string Space separated list of preferred SASL mechanisms for the



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