avelsieve problem switching mail servers

[Maria McKinley]

Simon Matter wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I tried posting this on the squirrelmail plugin mailing list, but didn't
>> get a response, so thought maybe someone on this list might be able to
>> give me a hint, since I know a lot of you have sieve set up with cyrus
>> and squirrelmail. Feel free to tell me this is the wrong list, and I
>> will try elsewhere, but if someone can help, I would be very grateful.
>>
>> I recently moved my mail server to a new server, and have managed to get
>> everything working except for sieve access through squirrelmail. I hope
>> this mail isn't too confusing, but wanted to lay out a few different
>> possibilities for what might be going on.
>>
>> Initially, when I tried to go to filters after logging into
>> squirrelmail, squirrelmail would hang, and eventually time out with no
>> error messages (just a reset by peer, I think). I tried going into
>> imapd.conf and turning off tls for sieve to see if there was an
>> authentication problem:
>>
>> sieve_tls_cert_file: disable
>>
>> When I do this, then I get an error message when I click on filters:
>>
>> Warning: stream_socket_enable_crypto()
>> [function.stream-socket-enable-crypto]: SSL operation failed with code
>> 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:1408F10B:SSL
>> routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number in
>> /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/avelsieve/include/managesieve.lib.php on
>> line 514
>> ERROR:
>> Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server localhost:2000.
>> Error Encountered: 255
>> Please contact your administrator.
>>
>> I looked at the managesieve.lib.php script, and I noticed that it uses
>> php4, but I am using php5. But, it seems kind of strange that it would
>> require php4, since this is the stable package for debian with default
>> settings, and I didn't have any dependency issues installing, so I'm not
>> sure this is the problem.
>>
>> squirrelmail                        2:1.4.15-4+lenny2
>> avelsieve                           1.9.7-6+lenny1
>>
>> TLS/SSL works for eveything else (imap,imaps,smtp,and apache), so I'm a
>> little bit suspicious for that being the problem.
>>
>> Something I did notice was that in the previous installation, we seemed
>> to be using something called websieve, although we also had the
>> avelsieve plugin installed. I copied the websieve directory, but I
>> haven't found any documentation about how websieve is different from
>> avelsieve or whether you can use both, or how
>> squirrelmail/avelsieve/websieve interact. I think I need to get rid of
>> websieve, and just use avelsieve, but I'm not sure about this. Would I
>> run into problems if I just got rid of the websieve directory? How is
>> avelsieve suppose to interact with squirrelmail?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> From you previous mail I got the impression that you have used avelsieve
> in the past. Now, did you use avelsieve or websieve (or both). At least I
> think using both at the same time doesn't make much sense. Avelsieve uses
> comments in your sieve scripts to store it's "metadata" and other tools
> won't understand them.
> 
> On one host running RHEL4 (which means PHP 4) I'm running avelsieve-1.9.8
> and in it's config file I see this:
> 
> /**
>  * @var boolean Disable STARTTLS for ManageSieve. You can set this to true,
>  * if you do not wish to use encryption via TLS mechanisms (i.e. the server
>  * is not configured properly, or this is a local connection and TLS is not
>  * needed.
>  * Note that STARTTLS is supported only in PHP5+. In PHP4 this option will
>  * have no effect and STARTTLS will be disabled anyway.
>  */
> global $avelsieve_disabletls;
> $avelsieve_disabletls = false;
> 
> I was using avelsieve 1.9.7 before and a patch was needed to get the same
> behaviour. The patch is attached, don't remember where I got it, I think
> from avelsieve CVS.
> 
> That said, I have used it to run sieve on the local host with STARTTLS. If
> you want to use STARTTLS then I don't know how to make it work.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon

Thanks Simon,
I don't seem to have anything about tls in my avelsieve-config.php file.

I seem to have both websieve and avelsieve on the previous installation, 
and I'm not sure which was actually being used. Where in the config 
files would I find out which one was actually being used?

thanks,
maria