Harold Pritchett <harold@...> writes:

On 8/11/2011 7:00 PM, Devin Reade wrote:

  --On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 01:52:21 PM -0400 Harold Pritchett

harold@uga.edu wrote:

    [harold <at> newmick ~]$ sieveshell localhost

connecting to localhost unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 170.

As an aid to finding out what was happening, I dropped a blank drive
into this system
and installed CentOS 5.6 in place of 6.0.  Did a quick upgrade to
5.7 and then configured
and started the following subsystems, exactly the same way I had
done with 6.0

cyrus-imap cyrus saslauthd openldap [harold <at> newmick ~]$ sieveshell localhost connecting to localhost Please enter your password: > put sieve > list sieve > activate sieve > list    sieve  <- active script > quit [harold <at> newmick ~]$ And, so, it works.  I am building this server to replace my existing mail/web/database server which is running Fedora release 9 (Sulphur).  I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of CentOS, but it looks to me that it's just not ready for prime time.  So, I'll just go to 5.7 and be supported again. Thanks for the help, even if we never got it to work. Harold

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I had the same issue and couldn't seem to fix after Googling so I tried doing random stuff. My OS was CentOS 6.4 and was getting the same error as you.

That error code looked like a connection error as the python class fails to instansiate a socket.

A telnet localhost 4190 revealed -

[root@xxxxx ~]# telnet localhost 4190 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.3.16-Fedora-RPM-2.3.16-6.el6_2.5" "SASL" "SIEVE" "comparator-i;ascii-numeric fileinto reject vacation imapflags notify envelope relational regex subaddress copy" OK

Where most configurations has "SASL" "PLAIN"

A sivtest command also spat out something along the lines of no authentication mechanisms left. Even though I know my SASL demon and IMAP was working perfectly.

How I solved the problem was sperating the sieve config from the imapd.conf

In my /etc/cyrus.conf I changed sieve file to read -

sieve cmd="timsieved -C /etc/sieve-local.conf" listen="localhost:sieve" prefork= 10

This points to a file that follows the same format as /etc/imapd.conf

I then copied over similar stuff I thought relavent for sieve -

/etc/sieve-local.conf

postmaster: postmaster configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no allowplaintext: yes sasl_mech_list: PLAIN servername: servername autocreatequota: 10000 reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 dracinterval: 0 drachost: localhost sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail sieve_maxscriptsize: 32 sieve_maxscripts: 5

Many of these were a direct copy & paste job from /etc/imapd.conf but when imap was in one config file and sieve in another it all seemed to work alot better. I also took off all the TLS stuff for sieve in the config file because im communicating via localhost and thus no reason to encrypt.

Might not work for you if you want to manage sieve from a remote host. But for me this did the job.