Hi, I have been following several threads concerning similar issues, but could not find the information which would have helped me solve the issue I am encountering. When using sivtest as follows: mail:/var/log # sivtest -a duke -u duke 192.168.0.5 S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.2.12" S: "SASL" "PLAIN" S: "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify subaddress relational comparator-i;ascii-numeric regex" S: OK Please enter your password: C: AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" {24+} ZHVrZQBkdWtlAFNwb29reTc= S: NO "Authentication Error" Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 in the logfile I found the following: Sep 19 20:14:40 mail master[11029]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: executed Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: sql_select option missing Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: accepted connection Sep 19 20:14:44 mail sieve[11029]: could not find auxprop plugin, was searching for '[all]' Sep 19 20:14:44 mail saslauthd[4028]: pam_mysql - MySQL error (Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.soc k' (2)) Sep 19 20:14:44 mail saslauthd[4028]: pam_unix_auth(sieve:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=duk e Sep 19 20:14:46 mail saslauthd[4028]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Permission denied Sep 19 20:14:46 mail saslauthd[4028]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=duke] [service=sieve] [realm=jgduke.dnsalias.com] [mech=pam] [r eason=PAM auth error] Sep 19 20:14:46 mail sieve[11029]: Password verification failed Sep 19 20:14:46 mail sieve[11029]: badlogin: mail.jgduke.dnsalias.com[192.168.0.5] PLAIN authentication failure Sep 19 20:14:53 mail master[15260]: process 11029 exited, status 0 Sep 19 20:15:50 mail kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.5 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID= 0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 Sep 19 20:15:54 mail last message repeated 3 times Sep 19 20:15:55 mail kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.5 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=211 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID =0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=191 Sep 19 20:16:13 mail master[11056]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: executed Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: sql_select option missing Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: accepted connection Sep 19 20:16:18 mail sieve[11056]: could not find auxprop plugin, was searching for '[all]' Sep 19 20:16:18 mail saslauthd[4027]: pam_mysql - MySQL error (Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.soc k' (2)) Sep 19 20:16:18 mail saslauthd[4027]: pam_unix_auth(sieve:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=duk e Sep 19 20:16:20 mail saslauthd[4027]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Permission denied Sep 19 20:16:20 mail saslauthd[4027]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=duke] [service=sieve] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth erro r] Sep 19 20:16:20 mail sieve[11056]: Password verification failed Sep 19 20:16:20 mail sieve[11056]: badlogin: mail.jgduke.dnsalias.com[192.168.0.5] PLAIN authentication failure Sep 19 20:16:35 mail master[15260]: process 11056 exited, status 0 Which settings are missing or wrong which could cause this? It seems some information on how to access the MySQL database is missing, but I do nto know which. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy Sauerbornstraße 4 D-61184 Karben Mob: +49-172-3408344 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html