[Dovecot] Dovecot + Sieve does not work

[Dennis Guhl]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:08:00PM +0100, Uppenbrink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:33:56 +0100, Jimmi wrote:
> ># dovecot -n
> ># 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> ># OS: Linux 2.6.26-110209 i686 Debian 6.0 ext3
> >log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
> >log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> >protocols: imap sieve
> 
> The protocol is managesieve, not sieve.
> Look at http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Configuration
> 
> >After that in Roundcube 0.5.1 downloaded from http://roundcube.net/ I
> >enabled the managesieve plugin but when I go to the filter page RC
> >says that he cannot connect the server. I then realized that the port
> >4190 is not open and I cannot understand why.
> >In my dovecot.conf I have the section:
> >protocol managesieve {
> >  # Specify an alternative address:port the daemon must listen on
> >  # (default: *:2000)
> >  listen = localhost:4190
> >}
> 
> Edit the config.inc.php from the managesieve roundcube plugin and
> change the managesieve_port. The default port is here also 2000.

Quite some time ago IANA assigned tcp port 4190 for sieve (tcp and udp
port 2000 is assaigned to cisco-sccp for yonks):

% egrep 'sieve|2000/tcp' /etc/services
cisco-sccp      2000/tcp                        # Cisco SCCP
sieve           4190/tcp                        # ManageSieve Protocol

Dennis