hello all, with helpful suggestions from this newsgroup, i was able to install cyrus 2.0.14 running with ldap (openldap 1.2) auth. so i tried sieve out. # telnet localhost sieve Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v1.0.0" "SASL" "LOGIN PLAIN" "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify subaddress regex" OK correct password for user 'demo' is 'demo' [root@homer /root]# installsieve -u demo -i demo1.script localhost Please enter your password: ZGVtbw== Unable to connect to server at /usr/local/bin/installsieve line 121, <STDIN> chunk 1. [root@homer /root]# installsieve -u demo -i demo1.script localhost Please enter your password: demo Unable to connect to server at /usr/local/bin/installsieve line 121, <STDIN> chunk 1. noticed i tried both the base64 encrypted password and the plain text password, but both give me failures. looking in ldap debug code for the 2 operations above: conn=0 fd=7 connection from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) accepted. conn=0 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 conn=0 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 conn=0 op=1 SRCH base="O=MAGICALLYDNS.NET" scope=2 filter="(uid=DEMO)" conn=1 fd=11 connection from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) accepted. conn=0 op=-1 fd=7 closed errno=0 conn=0 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 conn=0 op=2 UNBIND conn=1 op=0 BIND dn="CN=DEMO,O=MAGICALLYDNS.NET" method=128 conn=2 fd=7 connection from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) accepted. conn=1 op=0 RESULT err=49 tag=97 nentries=0 conn=1 op=1 UNBIND conn=1 op=1 fd=11 closed errno=0 conn=2 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 conn=2 op=-1 fd=7 closed errno=0 conn=2 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 conn=3 fd=7 connection from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) accepted. conn=3 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 conn=3 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 conn=3 op=1 SRCH base="O=MAGICALLYDNS.NET" scope=2 filter="(uid=DEMO)" conn=4 fd=11 connection from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) accepted. conn=3 op=-1 fd=7 closed errno=0 conn=3 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 conn=3 op=2 UNBIND conn=4 op=0 BIND dn="CN=DEMO,O=MAGICALLYDNS.NET" method=128 conn=4 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 conn=5 fd=7 connection from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) accepted. conn=4 op=-1 fd=11 closed errno=0 conn=4 op=1 UNBIND conn=5 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 conn=5 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 conn=5 op=-1 fd=7 closed errno=0 conn=5 op=1 UNBIND i've compared these entries with successful logins and the patterns suggest that the first ldap bind for "cn=demo,o=magicallydns.net" probably isn't successful (conn=1 op=0 RESULT err=49 tag=97 nentries=0) but the second one should be ok (conn=4 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0) am i still missing sth? why isn't binding successful from timsieved whereas it's perfectly ok for imapd. thanks, manuel.