I have been hapily running cyrus-imapd 1.6.24 for some time. My mail server is a black box: the users have no local accounts; imapd.conf instructs cyrus to authenticate via PAM and /etc/pam.d/imap uses pam_ldap.so to get user data from an OpenLDAP database. It all works beautifully. I do not use the SASL database at all; it is completely empty. Now I want to get sieve scripts working. When I telnet mailserver sieve then timseived answers. But when I installsieve -u username mailserver and enter username's password, it barfs, saying Authentication failed with: "user not found" Authentication failed. Packet sniffing reveals that the LDAP database was never querried. What is going on? Why doesn't timsieved use PAM just like imapd? Do I need an /etc/pam.d/sieve entry? Must I need to use the SASL database? Help, please!
