[Dovecot] plain text auth

[Chris Wakelin]

ohp at pyrenet.fr wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> 

"auth_mechanisms" is old syntax I think. Are you sure you're using
1.0-alpha5 or beta1?

>From dovecot-example.conf :-

auth default {
  # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
  #   plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous gssapi
  mechanisms = plain

...
}

Best Wishes,
Chris

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