> > I am not sure why would anyone be motivated to help you after such a > message. You provided no specifics such as error messages, sample > configurations, sieveshell command line options you tried, etc. >
I'm not expecting anyone to be particularly motivated. I admit that much of this post was more venting than productive. But it's really frustrating to have something almost but not quite working for weeks. Below I've (re)posted some specifics on what I was seeing. In addition to this, I was finding the very similar log entries when I was asked to authenticate an 'ldapadd' command. similar in that the problem was sasldb not being able to authenticate. Interesting in that I have nothing left to indicate that sasldb should be used for authentication. I would call this something of a "ghost". Given that I might have done something to my SuSE 8.2 Professional installation, I may have to start over again. However, I was able to determine from another person on the SuSE mailing list that what I entered for the "not working" segment should work as that is his S.O.P. and what did work shouldn't. For what it's worth, it would probably be better to just list what I'm doing and seeing. CONFIGURATION /etc/imapd.conf: sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb postconf -n | grep myhostname myhostname = mcgee.tacocat.net mcgee:~ # ls -l /etc/sasldb2 -rw-r----- 1 root mail 12288 2003-10-27 07:07 /etc/sasldb2 I am trying to use the authentication with a domain matching my $myhostname. WHATS HAPPENING This works (logged in as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2 mcgee:~ # saslpasswd2 -c bobby Password: Again (for verification): mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: userPassword mcgee:~ # sieveshell -u bobby -a bobby localhost connecting to localhost Please enter your password: > quit mcgee:~ # This does not work: mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2 mcgee:~ # saslpasswd2 -c -u mcgee.tacocat.net bobby Password: Again (for verification): mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: userPassword mcgee:~ # sieveshell -u bobby -a bobby -r mcgee.tacocat.net localhost connecting to localhost Please enter your password: Please enter your password: Please enter your password: Please enter your password: unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 174, <STDIN> line 4. mcgee:~ # And this was the result in the logs. Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee master[5411]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee sieve[5411]: executed Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee sieve[5411]: accepted connection Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee timsieved[5411]: OTP unavailable because can't read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: No such file or directory Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee timsieved[5411]: DIGEST-MD5 server step 1 Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee perl: DIGEST-MD5 client step 2 Oct 27 07:07:37 mcgee timsieved[5411]: DIGEST-MD5 server step 2 Oct 27 07:07:37 mcgee timsieved[5411]: no secret in database Oct 27 07:07:37 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 authentication failure Oct 27 07:07:38 mcgee timsieved[5411]: Password verification failed Oct 27 07:07:38 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] PLAIN authentication failure Oct 27 07:07:40 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] LOGIN authentication failure Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee timsieved[5411]: no secret in database Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 authentication failure Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee perl: No worthy mechs found Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee master[1172]: process 5411 exited, status 0
