"Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections" despite correct configuration to allow this

Hello,

this is basically a repeat of this query from last year, which unfortunately got a deafening silence for replies:

http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-August/101720.html

I have mostly 2.1.7 (Debian Wheezy) mailbox servers and the current proxies are also of that vintage.

So with "ssl=yes" and "disable_plaintext_auth=no" plaintext logins work, as per the documentation (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration) and historically expected.

Trying to use a 2.2.24 (Debian Jessie backports) dovecot proy with the same parameters fails like this:

Aug 2 15:45:57 smtp12 dovecot: pop3-login: proxy(chibixxx@gol.com): Login failed to mbxx.xxx.gol.com:110: Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections.: user=chibixxx@gol.com, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, pid=16066

Changing things to "ssl=no" doesn't help and setting trusted networks only changes the last bit to have "secured" appended but still fails the same otherwise.

I really need 2.2.x to behave the same way as before and documented.

Any ideas and feedback would be most welcome.

Regards,

Christian

Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer
chibi@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Rakuten Communications http://www.gol.com/