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

[John Espiro]

OK... so one thing is that I see 4 dovecot.conf files:

/usr/share/dovecot/dovecot.conf
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
/etc/init/dovecot.conf
/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf

It's not altogether clear which one is being used by the service...  why
would there be four of them?

John

On 1/27/2011 6:03 PM, Paul Griffith wrote:
> 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
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