That was my problem. I had "timsieved 2000/tcp" instead of just "sieve 2000/tcp". I fixed that and now it runs properly. Thank you for your help! David Nic Bernstein wrote: > 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 >> > > -- =========================================== David Korpiewski Software Specialist I CSCF - Computer Science Computing Facility Department of Computer Science Phone: 413-545-4319 Fax: 413-577-2285 =========================================== ---- 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