[Dovecot] Plaintext Authentication from Localhost

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 11:08, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> It appears that at least at one time, Dovecot supported plaintext 
> authentication from localhost, even if disable_plaintext_auth = yes. To wit, 
> the example configuration file reads:

Ah, but you're looking at the CVS version's config file :) I'm copying
it to web page from CVS automatically. Maybe not that good idea but easy
to keep up to date..

> So, the question is, is Dovecot supposed to support plaintext auth via 
> localhost even if disallowed in dovecot.conf? If so, any suggestions as to 
> what I may be doing wrong?

I only added that code a few weeks ago.