RE: Save user passwords in clear text

Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot? I am currently using MD5 passwords and I allow only "plain and login” mechanisms but I want to switch my database to clear text as this will give me the ability to use more mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5. Is this possible?

I'm not sure if this is what you mean by saving passwords "through dovecot". But here's how to save a clear-text password when the passdb scheme is not plaintext.

Use the {PLAIN} prefix. Example:

10-auth.conf: passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=cram-md5 username_format=%n /path/passdb }

/path/passdb: username:{PLAIN}secret

User "username" can log in with password "secret"

Michael