[Dovecot] doveadm director proxy

[Timo Sirainen]

On 14.2.2012, at 22.47, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

> I'm trying to configure a doveadm service that will proxy trough our
> directors, following the recipie at:
> 
> 	http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director#Doveadm_server
> 
> So on the backends I have:
> 
> 	service doveadm {
>  		inet_listener {
>    			port = 24245
>    			address = *
>  		}
> 	}
> 	doveadm_proxy_port = 24245
> 	local 192.168.42.0/24 {
>  		doveadm_password = suPerSeecret
> 	}
> 
> I assume the "local" line is supposed to point at my local network..?

Yes. Those IPs where you allow authentication from.

> in the main section. Now I get trough to my backend servers, but they
> complain about:
> 
> 	dovecot::  doveadm: Error: doveadm client attempted non-PLAIN authentication

This means doveadm was talking incorrectly.

> Any ideas for what that might be? This is with dovecot v2.0.14.

Some v2.0 versions had bugs related to doveadm server. So this is probably a bug in v2.0.14. And I'm not entirely sure if doveadm server works correctly in v2.0 at all, since I did some bigger changes to v2.1 related to it.