Well, it looks like enough poking around (and some updating) has fixed the authentication problem. But I am still having issues with launching sieveshell. The problem is that timsieved is "signaled to death by 11". The only references to this error that I could find where in relation to lmtp, and the solution was commenting out a section of the lmtp code. That aint gonna work here.
Any ideas where the problem might be? I should mention that IMAP is working just fine. One other option: Can I use sieve without sieveshell? Red Hat 8.0 cyrus-imapd-2.2.1-BETA cyrus-sasl-2.1.15 sendmail-8.12.9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat imapd.conf configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: root cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN tls_cert_file: /var/imap/server.pem tls_key_file: /var/imap/server.pem sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail sieveusehomedir: false sievedir: /usr/sieve [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] imap]# sieveshell localhost connecting to localhost Please enter your password: Please enter your password: Bad protocol from MANAGESIEVE server: lost connection [EMAIL PROTECTED] imap]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] imap]# tail /var/log/imapd.log Jul 20 03:30:12 ophelia ctl_cyrusdb[28626]: archiving database file: /var/imap/mailboxes.db Jul 20 03:30:12 ophelia ctl_cyrusdb[28626]: archiving database file: /var/imap/annotations.db Jul 20 03:30:12 ophelia ctl_cyrusdb[28626]: archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000001 Jul 20 03:30:12 ophelia ctl_cyrusdb[28626]: archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000001 Jul 20 03:30:12 ophelia ctl_cyrusdb[28626]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Jul 20 03:30:12 ophelia master[28527]: process 28626 exited, status 0 Jul 20 03:31:52 ophelia master[28628]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/timsieved Jul 20 03:31:52 ophelia sieve[28628]: executed Jul 20 03:31:52 ophelia sieve[28628]: accepted connection Jul 20 03:32:00 ophelia master[28527]: process 28628 exited, signaled to death by 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] imap]# Thanks for all the help. ~~Guildencrantz