Does your /etc/services file have an entry for sieve? Mine (FreeBSD 7) is :
sieve 2000/tcp
Of course yours should refer to whichever port you are using (typically
2000).
Cheers,
-nic
David Korpiewski wrote:
> This is a very odd problem that I can't seem to dig up much information
> on. I think the problem itself is very simple, I just don't know how to
> rectify it:
>
> I am trying to set of Sieve filtering on a 10.5.4 OSX mail Server.
> However, when I turn on the mail server, timsieved is never running! In
> the logs I get:
>
> "nodename nor servname provided, or not known, disabling sieve"
>
> At startup when I bring up the mail server (serveradmin start mail).
>
>
> I don't understand what is missing to get sieve running. Does anyone know?
>
> The error "nodename nor servname provided" is a very common error having
> to do with the "getaddrinfo".
>
> Any help would be wonderful and very much appreciated.
> Thank you
> David
>
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