Problem logging in during testing

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 15.06.2015, 13:33 -0400 schrieb Steve Matzura:
> I think I have it now! Found info about *correctly* defining
> namespaces. I now get the following when telnetting in, and it all
> looks valid.
> 
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
> IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
> a login <my-username> <my-password>
> a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
> IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT
> CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE 
> QRESYNC
> ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE
> SPECIAL-USE] Logged in
> a logout
> * BYE Logging out
> a OK Logout completed.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> If this is correct, then I'm off to add Postfix and get my mailing
> lists back online.

It looks like you don't enforce SSL/TLS.
If you don't have any clients which are many years old you should do
that.
But of course it'S your own decision if you want your users passwords
(and everything else) sent to your server in clear text over the wire