avelsieve problem switching mail servers

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org>:

> Simon Matter wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I don't think websieve was used with squirrelmail but standalone. At least
>> I never heard of a websieve plugin for squirrelmail, but I know a tool
>> named websieve which has no relation to squirrelmail.
>>
>> If you want to know how your sieve scripts were managed, you may just look
>> at the script on your imap server. If they have been created with
>> avelsieve then you will find lot's of comment string from avelsieve.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>>
>
> I seem to have scripts created by both websieve and avelsieve, but I do
> know that we have been managing sieve through squirrelmail for a very
> long time. Looks like the websieve scripts haven't been touched since
> 2007. So, I think I'm back to where I was. Avelsieve was working on the
> last machine, but isn't working now. I'm pretty sure I have copied all
> configs over. How can I increase logging, so I can see what is happening
> when I get the time-out?
>
> thanks,
> maria


Which Versions of cyrus do you have installed on the new
and the old mailserver? And does Avelsieve use Net_Sieve?
If yes which version of Net_Sieve do you have installed.

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