[Dovecot] 1.0-test56

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Mon Dec 6 19:11:04 EET 2004


Timo Sirainen wrote:

> This happens because you are using a passdb that doesn't work with 
> anything else than plaintext (pam, passwd, shadow, etc.). Dovecot was 
> actually supposed to be checking this and failing at startup but looks 
> like I had broken the check at some point and instead it now just crashes.

Actually, now that you mention this, it _is_ possible to enable vpopmail 
to work with cram-md5, but only if you are running vpopmail with 
pw_clear_passwd set (which is what they recommend for larger sites). 
I'll take a look at the code and see about implementing that...

John

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