[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1

[Lorens]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 03:18:32PM +0100, mickael.choisnard at free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> I change this
> 
> auth default {
>   mechanisms = plain
>   passdb pam {
>     args = "dovecot"
>   }
>     passdb passwd {
>      }
>   userdb passwd {
>   }
> But i have the same error :
> 
> telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Dovecot ready.
> 1 login toto mypasswd
> -ERR Unknown command.

You're trying to speak IMAP to the POP server. That won't work,
and it's not a PAM problem :-)

If you want to test that the POP server works, the syntax is

user toto
pass mypasswd


> telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK Dovecot ready.
> 1 login toto mypasswd
> 1 OK Logged in

Speaking IMAP to the IMAP server seems to work.

HTH