Dear list, in my system sieve is not working. I check the user cyrus by imtest. the command is "imtest -a cyrus -u cyrus localhost -s" ----------------------------------------------------------- TLS connection established: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) S: * OK lvps87-230-8-228.dedicated.hosteurope.de Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12 server ready C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN SASL-IR X-NETSCAPE S: C01 OK Completed Please enter your password: C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN Y3lydXMAY3lydXMAbWFoYWRldg== S: A01 OK Success (tls protection) Authenticated. Security strength factor: 256 ------------------------------------------------------------------- now " sivtest -a cyrus localhost" reports ---------------------------------------------------- S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.2.12" S: "SASL" "PLAIN LOGIN" S: "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify subaddress relational comparator-i;ascii-numeric regex" S: "STARTTLS" S: OK Please enter your password: C: AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" {20+} AGN5cnVzAG1haGFkZXY= S: NO "Authentication Error" Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 ------------------------------------------------------ where may be the problem here ? Even "sieveshell localhost " is not working too. see below ------------------------ lvps87-230-8-228:~ # sieveshell localhost connecting to localhost Please enter your password: unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 169, <STDIN> line 1. --------------------------------------------------- here is the log -------------------------------- Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 sieve[3675]: attempting server step after doneflag Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 sieve[3675]: badlogin: lvps87-230-8-228.dedicated.hosteurope.de[127.0.0.1] LOGIN generic failure Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 perl: No worthy mechs found Apr 19 09:15:23 lvps87-230-8-228 master[31987]: process 3675 exited, status 0 ----------------------------------- please note I have cyrus-sasl-plain and cyrus-sasl-Login module installed. ---- 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