[Dovecot] New install authentication probs (Solved)

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:50:28PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Update on this problem,
> > seems the only issue I had was that the telnet method of verifying
> > IMAP authentication that works on Courier just doesnt work with
> > Dovecot.
> 
> What did you use? What did you see in response? Correct syntax is simply
> 
> a login username password

... although now I come to think of it, you may need to enable this in
dovecot.conf first, since by default it won't allow a plaintext login over
an unsecured channel.