Issues w/ sieveshell

[Bob Chiodini]

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Well, I'm trying to use sieveshell again to update my message filters, 
> I'm running:
>
> cyrus-imapd-2.3.9-6.fc6
> cyrus-imapd-perl-2.3.9-6.fc6
> cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.9-6.fc6
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-10
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4
> cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-4
> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.22-4
>
>
> and indeed lsof/netstat both tell me that I've got sieve listening...
>
> But when I run sieveshell, it craps out with a less-than-helpful (or 
> accurate!) message:
>
> $ sieveshell localhost
> connecting to localhost
> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 169.
> $
>
> Running strace on this script reveals that it is indeed connecting, 
> and getting the normal banner, etc:
>
> ...
> read(4, "\"IMPLEMENTATION\" \"Cyrus timsieve"..., 4096) = 204
> write(2, "unable to connect to server at /"..., 61) = 61
> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 169.
> ...
>
> Any ideas?  I asked on cyrus-bugs, but the silence was deafening in 
> the way of a response.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
>
Philip,

Add:

allowplaintext: 1


To imapd.conf to enable plaintext logins.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275921


Thanks go to Will Partain and Tomas Janousek (RedHat).

Bob...