[Dovecot] authentication troubles

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 18 13:39:02 EEST 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:20 +0200, Albert Dengg wrote:
> hi
> 
> i have a strange problem with my dovecot installtion:
> i configured it to accept digest-md5 authentication only but for some
> reason mailclients (i tried mutt and thunderbird so far) want to log
> with PLAIN (which fails of course).

Thunderbird doesn't support DIGEST-MD5 as far as I know, but mutt has
always used DIGEST-MD5 with me automatically. In any case there isn't
anything on Dovecot's side you can do about this. Although you could
verify that:

openssl s_client -connect imap.domain.org:22993
x capability

There should be no AUTH=PLAIN in the capability list, and there should
also be LOGINDISABLED capability.

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