Can the disable_plaintext_auth setting get overridden for a specific port?

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 30/04/2021 20:17 Steve Dondley <s at dondley.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> In 10-auth.conf, I have "disable_plaintext_auth = yes"
> 
> For port 143, I'd like to do something like this to override that 
> setting:
> 
> service imap-login {
>    inet_listener imap {
>      port = 143
>      disable_plain_text_auth = no
>    }
> }
> 
> Based on https://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess and 
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/service_configuration/ it 
> doesn't seem like this is supported. But maybe there is another way to 
> accomplish this?

If you want to allow plaintext auth from trusted proxies, use login_trusted_networks instead. https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/core/#login-trusted-networks

Aki