[Dovecot] Problems getting Squirrelmail and Avelsieve to connect to Pigeonhole

[Stephan Bosch]

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.