[CentOS] sieveshell fails to start on CentOS 6.0

Thu Aug 11 23:00:29 UTC 2011
Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org>

--On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 01:52:21 PM -0400 Harold Pritchett
<harold at uga.edu> wrote:

> [harold at newmick ~]$ sieveshell localhost
> connecting to localhost
> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 170.

Try specifying both --user and --authname as appropriate.  sieveshell
can be misleading in its error messages, and you may actually 
have an authentication error rather than a connection error there.

You could run it under strace to make sure.

Devin