[Dovecot] What auth ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 2.1.2010, at 13.47, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info: passwd-file(postmaster,127.0.0.1): lookup: user=postmaster file=/etc/dovecot/passwd
> Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info: passwd-file(postmaster,127.0.0.1): unknown user

"postmaster" doesn't exist in /etc/dovecot/passwd file.

> Jan 02 19:15:26 imap-login: Info: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.
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> AFAIK, I disabled plain auth and enabled digest-md5.

I guess you mean you set auth { mechanisms = digest-md5 }? Yeah, that'll cause plaintext auth attempts to fail and probably isn't what you wanted. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication may be helpful.