[Dovecot] Secure authentication?

[Nikolay Shopik]

On 11.11.2007 14:18, Jürgen Herz wrote:
> On 2007-11-11 01:13, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>   
>> I have enabled SSL support for my dovecot installation but if I enable secure authentication in my MUA, I get an
>> error from dovecot telling me that this is not supported..
>>
>> Is this because dovecot does not support this or am I missing some config?
>>     
>
> Might be. But note that with "secure authentication" it might mean
> CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, Kerberos a.s.o. that are no simple plain text or
> just Base64 coding mechanisms. SSL on the other hand is a way to make a
> secure *connection*.
> So make sure some of the above mechanisms are enabled in your dovecot
> installation as well.
>
> Jürgen
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Agree, its probably it is this because secure authentication means 
secure password not secure connection.