[Dovecot] Weirdness with authentication/1.0a4.

[Ashley Penney]

Hi,

FreeBSD has recently upgraded their port from 0.99 to 1.0a4, and this has
caused me an absolute nightmare of a situation.  In a nutshell I replaced my
conf with the -example, and modified almost nothing.  I made some SSL certs
and put them in place, left it with imap/pop/pam etc.

Whenever users tried to connect to the remote address, cara.untaken.net, I
would get:

Oct 27 18:31:14 cara dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up
Oct 27 18:31:33 cara dovecot: imap-login: Login failed: Plaintext
authentication
 disabled: rip=217.206.62.50, lip=217.206.62.50
 Oct 27 18:31:33 cara dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=217.206.62.50,
 lip=2
 17.206.62.50

However, plaintext authenication was most definitely not disabled.  Using
www.untaken.net/mail/ which is hosted on the same box as dovecot I could
get this plaintext failure constantly using cara.untaken.net, but switching
to 'localhost' instead would work fine, despite being the same physical
machine.

I'm baffled at what could cause this, I put my currently conf over at
www.untaken.net/dovecot/ just for reference, I've modified various bits now
from the default in a desperate attempt to get it working.  Has anyone else
seen anything like it?
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