dovecot - Oct 2013 - Problems getting Squirrelmail and Avelsieve to connect to Pigeonhole

Hi,

I have been going around in circles trying to find the solution. Many 
others appear to have the same problem, but never a solution or explanation.

I am running Dovecot 2.0.21 under Fedora 16.

All components are running on the same server, whose IP address is shown 
as '192.168.x.y'.

The dovecot -n output is:
<quote>

    /SSH Secure Shell 3.2.0 (Build 267)/
    /Copyright (c) 2000-2002 SSH Communications Security Corp -
    http://www.ssh.com//

    /This copy of SSH Secure Shell is a non-commercial version./
    /This version does not include PKI and PKCS #11 functionality./


    /Last login: Sun Oct  6 17:00:08 2013 from 192.168.2.196/
    /[root at nsi-server2 ~]# /usr/sbin/dovecot -n/
    /# 2.0.21: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf/
    /# OS: Linux 3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 16 (Verne) /
    /auth_debug_passwords = yes/
    /auth_verbose = yes/
    /auth_verbose_passwords = plain/
    /log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.log/
    /mail_access_groups = mail/
    /mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u/
    /managesieve_notify_capability = mailto/
    /managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
    encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
    relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
    environment mailbox date ihave/
    /mbox_write_locks = fcntl/
    /passdb {/
    /  driver = pam/
    /}/
    /passdb {/
    /  args = /etc/dovecot/users/
    /  driver = passwd-file/
    /}/
    /plugin {/
    /  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve/
    /  sieve_dir = ~/sieve/
    /  sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve/
    /}/
    /protocols = imap pop3 sieve sieve/
    /service imap-login {/
    /  inet_listener imap {/
    /    address = 192.168.x.y,localhost/
    /  }/
    /  inet_listener imaps {/
    /    address = 192.168.x.y/
    /  }/
    /}/
    /service managesieve-login {/
    /  inet_listener sieve {/
    /    port = 4190/
    /  }/
    /}/
    /service pop3-login {/
    /  inet_listener pop3 {/
    /    address = 192.168.x,y,localhost/
    /  }/
    /  inet_listener pop3s {/
    /    address = 192.168.x.y/
    /  }/
    /}/
    /ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem/
    /ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem/
    /userdb {/
    /  driver = passwd/
    /}/
    /userdb {/
    /  args = /etc/dovecot/users/
    /  driver = passwd-file/
    /}/

</quote>

On attempting to connect to the managesieve port from Squirrelmail, 
using the 'Filter' button i get the following error message:

    /*Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server localhost.*/
    /*Please contact your administrator*/


Running/*# /usr/sbin/ngrep -d lo port 4190 */produces the following trace:
<quote>

    /[root at nsi-server root]# /usr/sbin/ngrep -d lo port 4190/
    /interface: lo (127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0)/
    /filter: (ip or ip6) and ( port 4190 )/
    /####/
    /T 127.0.0.1:4190 -> 127.0.0.1:35495 [AP]/
    /  "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot
Pigeonhole".."SIEVE" "fileinto reject
    envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator/
    /  -i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include
    variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave".."NOTIFY/
    /  " "mailto".."SASL"
"PLAIN".."STARTTLS".."VERSION" "1.0"..OK
    "Dovecot ready.".. /
    /##/
    /T 127.0.0.1:35495 -> 127.0.0.1:4190 [AP]/
    /  AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" \{28+}.. /
    /##/
    /T 127.0.0.1:35495 -> 127.0.0.1:4190 [AP]/
    /c3RldmUAc3RldmUAbWFnaWNsaWs=.. /
    /##/
    /T 127.0.0.1:4190 -> 127.0.0.1:35495 [AP]/
    /  NO "Invalid characters in atom"..NO "Error in MANAGESIEVE
command
    received by server.".. /
    /###/

</quote>

I hope that someone can provide a way to get the filter management 
working as I am more that happy with the way Dovecot and Squirrelmail 
are working, but just want to add server-side filtering, especially 
tagged mail produced by Spamassassin :)

Many thanks

Steve

On 10/6/2013 9:01 PM, Steve wrote:
> Running/*# /usr/sbin/ngrep -d lo port 4190 */produces the following
> trace:
>
>    /##/
>    /T 127.0.0.1:35495 -> 127.0.0.1:4190 [AP]/
>    /  AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" \{28+}.. /
>    /##/
>    /T 127.0.0.1:35495 -> 127.0.0.1:4190 [AP]/
>    /c3RldmUAc3RldmUAbWFnaWNsaWs=.. /
>    /##/
>    /T 127.0.0.1:4190 -> 127.0.0.1:35495 [AP]/
>    /  NO "Invalid characters in atom"..NO "Error in
MANAGESIEVE command
>    received by server.".. /
>    /###/
>
> I hope that someone can provide a way to get the filter management
> working as I am more that happy with the way Dovecot and Squirrelmail
> are working, but just want to add server-side filtering, especially
> tagged mail produced by Spamassassin :)
I was a bit confused by what your screen dump looks like with all those
slashes, so initially I didn't notice one strange slash that is actually
causing this phenomenon. I went as far as installing 2.0.21 with
Pigeonhole 0.2.6 to reproduce this, only to find out that I couldn't.

But.. when I copied this literally into my manual ManageSieve telnet
session:

AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" \{28+}

it failed in the same manner. The reason is quite obvious: this is not a
valid ManageSieve command. That '\' is not supposed to be there.

So, it looks like AvelSieve is severely broken.

Regards,

Stephan.