Could not log on to timsieved daemon

[rgnelson]

I am trying to get Server-side Mail processing for Cyrus running.
I need to be able to use the autorespoder.

I’ve seen reference to this error, on this board and others through google search, but I have not run across the fix for it.

“Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server localhost.
Please contact your administrator.”

I used this article to install: https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040721014726822
When I login to squirrelmail, I see the filters button but when I select it I get the above error.
I have been using squirrelmail successfully for months.
In squirrelmail/conf.pl I have avelsieve listed as an installed plugin.
In squirrelmail/conf.pl the imap port is to 143?

Thanks for your help,
RGNelson

[rgnelson]

I got it to work.
Wrong auth type selected in conf.pl.

[Anonymous]

Could you be a bit more specific? Are you saying that Squirrelmail’s auth needs type to be something other than “login”. Or that sieve needs to match that login type?

[Anonymous]

If you are using debian sarge, don’t forget to install the libsasl2-modules package, without it you can not use plain authentication with timsieved.

[maximxygo]

Heya everybody, I just solved my own issue with "Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server…"

What was happening in my case was that only certain users couldn’t use the Filters in Squirrelmail… most could but some, after clicking the Filter link, would get the dreaded error message. After digging around, I found that, in the /usr/sieve folder, the folder "j" (the username was "jritchie") had different permissions than that of the others, who were working.

mail:/usr/sieve root# ls -l
total 0
drwx—— 3 cyrusima wheel 102 Dec 27 15:21 c
drwx—— 4 cyrusima wheel 136 Dec 22 09:49 d
drwx—— 5 cyrusima wheel 170 Dec 23 10:01 e
drw——- 3 cyrusima mail 102 Aug 23 14:36 j
drwx—— 5 cyrusima wheel 170 Dec 23 16:14 k

… So, I threw:
mail:/usr/sieve root# chown -R cyrusimap:wheel j
… then:
mail:/usr/sieve root# chmod -R 700 j

… to repair the permissions. Resulting in:

mail:/usr/sieve root# ls -l
total 0
drwx—— 3 cyrusima wheel 102 Dec 27 15:21 c
drwx—— 4 cyrusima wheel 136 Dec 22 09:49 d
drwx—— 5 cyrusima wheel 170 Dec 23 10:01 e
drwx—— 3 cyrusima wheel 102 Aug 23 14:36 j
drwx—— 5 cyrusima wheel 170 Dec 23 16:14 k

Worked like a charm. 🙂

mark daniel
detroitmac
http://www.detroitmac.com

[Anonymous]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: RGNelson[/u]

I got it to work.
Wrong auth type selected in conf.pl.

[/QUOTE]

I don’t understand. I’m looking in conf.pl (several years later, mind you 😕 ) and don’t see an option for an auth type. If this is what truly fixes this, I’m interested in knowing how to change it.

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/etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

Select Server Settings

Select General… number 6 is your auth type….

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