[Dovecot] disable_plaintext_auth = no ignored by dovecot in Ubuntu 10.04

[Timo Sirainen]

On 31.1.2011, at 7.25, David Mattox wrote:

> I have been trying to get Dovecot configured to allow plaintext auth with no success.  After some testing with the mail system I discovered the >dovecot -a   commant to dump the config file values from the program.  Gee, changing the value of disable_plaintext_auth had no effect on what the program reported this value to be!

You sure dovecot.conf is the right file and not dovecot-postfix.conf (that dovecot-postfix package uses)?