Bug#441612: cyrus-admin-2.2: sieveshell cannot connect to server

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Alex Prinsier wrote:
> Package: cyrus-admin-2.2
> Severity: normal
>
> Sieveshell is unable to connect to cyrmaster. I've found this error many times on google, but the cause was either unrelated or a solution wasn't 
> found (or at least not posted there).
>
> # sieveshell --user=cyrus --authname=cyrus localhost:2000
> connecting to localhost:2000
> unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 179.
>
> cyrus is running:
>
> # netstat -ntap | grep 2000
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:2000          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     17517/cyrmaster
>
>
>   

Do you have any firewall rules that might be preventing it? Did you try
restarting cyrus? Is there any information in the logs that might help?

Benjamin