[Dovecot] NO: Unsupported authentication mechanism

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 17:53 +0100, Steve [Dovecot] wrote:
>         "Net::IMAP::NoResponseError: Unsupported authentication mechanism"
> If I change 'LOGIN' to 'CRAM-MD5' (the other value supported by 
> Net::IMAP) then I get a similar (but not identical) error:
>         "Net::IMAP::NoResponseError: Authentication failed: Unsupported 
> authentication mechanism"
> If I use anything other than either 'LOGIN' or 'CRAM-MD5' I get an error 
> from the Net::IMAP library saying "Unknown auth type" - which is reasonable.

PLAIN is the standard plaintext mechanism. If you want to use others,
you'll have to add them to auth_mechanisms setting. Dovecot also accepts
LOGIN if you just add it there.

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