[Dovecot] dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext auth): method=PLAIN

[Paul Griffith]

On 01/27/11 09:42 AM, John Espiro wrote:
> Hi Paul -
>
> Well, I want to use STARTTLS... my Thunderbird settings are:
>
> In thunderbird, I have the following settings:
> Port 110
> Username:<user>
> Connection security: STARTTLS
> Authentication: Normal password
>
> Which should be correct, right?
>
> John

What if you change STARTTTLS to SSL ?

Did you try setting disable_plaintext_auth = no ?


>
> On 1/27/2011 2:28 PM, Paul Griffith wrote:
>>
>> This looks like you are trying to connect to pop3 without SSL or TLS.
>> If you really want to allow plaintext over a non-secure connection
>> then you need to use the following.
>>
>> disable_plaintext_auth = no
>>
>> Paul