Re: [Dovecot] Can't get apop to work.

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 21:32 -0800, Greg Lorriman wrote:

If I select apop as one of the allowed protocols (in order to avoid having to use ssl) I get this error message in the mail log :

"APOP mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs"

I tried fiddling with PAM by adding an /etc/pam.d/apop file with these contents :

It's impossible to support anything but plaintext authentication with PAM. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms and http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes