[Dovecot] [exim] Exim / Dovecot and AUTH LOGIN

[Frank Elsner]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 19:47:39 +0200 Jonas Eckerman wrote:
> On 2012-05-08 15:22, Frank Elsner wrote:
> 
> [About exim authenticating PLAIN and LOGIN against dovecot auth socket]
> 
> > PLAIN Authentication works perfect, LOGIN gives
> 
> > 2012-05-08 15:08:43 login authenticator failed for xxxxxx.tu-berlin.de [130.149.X.YY]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket protocol error
> 
> This is just a guess since I'm not too good at dovecot, but could it be 
> that you need to set at least "auth_mechanisms = plain login" your in 
> dovecot config?

Yeah, that was it! You made my day!


--Frank Elsner