[Dovecot] plain text auth

[ohp at pyrenet.fr]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:56:50 +0000
> From: Chris Wakelin <c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk>
> To: ohp at pyrenet.fr
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] plain text auth
>
> ohp at pyrenet.fr wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > This is my second try with dovecot, and still no luck.
> > What I want is twig to work with dovecot on the localhost address .
> >
> > I need to authenticate through pam for real accounts and through pgsql for
> > virtual ones.
> >
> > I just cant autenticate:
> > logs are : imap-:login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported
> > authentication  mechanism
> > or: Aborted login: method = PLAIN
> >
> > Could someone please share a working config file that does what I want?
> > I'm struggling for weeks now both on tyhe alpha5 and beta1 versions.
> >
> > TIA
> >
>
> What do you get if you "telnet localhost 143" then type ". CAPABILITY"
> (then ". LOGOUT")? Does it include "AUTH=PLAIN"?
No
> What do you have for
> "mechanisms" and "disable_plaintext_auth"?
>
I don't have mechanisms, I have auth_mechanisms to plain
and disable_plaintext_auth is no
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
>
>

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