No AUTH PLAIN with dovecot 2.0.19

[Reindl Harald]

Am 29.09.2014 um 15:21 schrieb Michael Wechner:
> 
> Hi Harald
> 
> Thanks very much for your quick reply. Please see my answers inline below
> 
>> telnet is worthless because AUTH is likely announced *after STARTTLS*
>> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_sasl_security_options
> 
> right, but when requesting for example mail.wyona.com, then I can see AUTH

depends on the servers configuration

> hence I would assume to see it also for the new version of postfix 
> and dovecot, or do I misunderstand something?

yes, you did not read http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_sasl_security_options

if the server is configured in a way it offers AUTH only
over a encrypted channel (recommended) then you need to
use STARTTLS before you see the capability and for that
telnet is just the wrong tool

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