Re: [Dovecot] problem with disable_plaintext_auth

Hi,

...

I am using dovecot with postfix for authentication.

Everything (TLS/SSL, authentication) is working fine, except that when I set:

disable_plaintext_auth = yes

I still can authenticate with plain text on a no TLS/SSL session:

20 mail2.cs.ait.ac.th ESMTP Postfix (2.6.2)
EHLO [192.41.170.57]
250-mail2.cs.ait.ac.th
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
AUTH PLAIN XXXX
235 2.7.0 Authentication successful

disable_plaintext_auth affects logging in to dovecot IMAP/POP3 server.
This is a SMTP session with Postfix, you'll have to configure Postfix
not to allow plain text authentication before STARTTLS.

But postfix hands the authentication task to dovecot (dovecot-auth daemon).

And I am sure it does, because if I remove PLAIN from the authentication mechanism of dovecot, then the SMTP sessions with postfix will not offer AUTH PLAIN anymore.

So I am confused here.

Best regards,

Olivier