On 04 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I am a newcomer to Dovecot so apologies if this is elementary.
I want to set up dovecot to allow other computers on my home network to read emails on my desktop via IMAP. This computer is called arcadia.
dovecot is running and I can access the mail on the same computer with mutt -f imap://ac@localhost.
If I use the above line on a different computer in the network it says "authenticaing 'PLAIN'" and then "logging in ..", then "login failed" and cuts out.
In /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf I have set
disable_plaintext_auth = no
I have no idea how to proceed further.
Anthony Campell
Sorry to follow up to my own email but immediatel after I sent it I found the answer (always the way!). I had some imap entries in .muttrc which were interfering with the login. Removing these made it work.
AnthonY
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