[pysieved] Authentication problem

[Matthias Berndt <matthias_berndt at gmx dot de>]

Hi,

I want to use pysieved with dovecot. Authentication is usually done 
via GSSAPI (Kerberos, that is). Dovecot is configured accordingly and 
provides the auth socket in /var/spool/postfix/private/auth. Postfix 
successfully uses that socket for authentication, so it should be OK. 
However, when I try to manage my sieve scripts (with kmail), it tells 
me NO "Unsupported authentication mechanism"is not supported. 
My configuration file looks like this:

[main]
auth    = Dovecot
userdb  = Virtual
storage = Dovecot
port    = 2000
pidfile = /var/run/pysieved.pid
[Virtual]
base = /var/dovecot/
uid = -1
gid = -1
hostdirs = False
[Dovecot]
mux = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
sievec = /usr/lib/dovecot/sievec
scripts = .dovecot.sieve[PAM]
[PAM]
service = dovecot

I've also tried to do authentication via PAM (via pam_krb5.so). My 
dovecot server is configured to support that anyway, so I just told 
pysieved to use dovecot's PAM configuration, but when I try to access 
the scripts via kmail, it tells me that my user name and/or password 
aren't correct (needless to say they are correct, since kmail is able 
to fetch my mails with them). 

<rant>The fact that pysieved hardly provides any logging at all 
doesn't make it easier to debug the configuration. IMO, that is an 
absolutely critical feature, and you really shouldn't release a 1.0 
without good support for logging facilities. </rant>

Regards
Matthias Berndt