salted hash format such as SSHA, and use plaintext auth (over SSL, of course).
Thank you so much for your in depth reponse Gedalya, I appreciate it!
So now that I changed things up and my conf is: auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no
I get the following, which I dont get, because now it seems to be telling me that my decrypted AES password needs to be MD5-CRYPT or PLAIN-MD5?
Debug: sql(jeff,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT AES_DECRYPT(password, 'mykey') AS password, userid AS user FROM users WHERE userid='jeff' AND AES_DECRYPT(password, 'mykey')='mypass' Error: sql(jeff,127.0.0.1): Invalid password 'mypass' in passdb: Not a valid MD5-CRYPT or PLAIN-MD5 password Debug: sql(jeff,127.0.0.1): MD5(mypass) != 'mypass', try PLAIN scheme instead Apr 28 19:18:56 mydomain dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111#011user=jeff
This is even more confusing as my mechanisms say plain, not any type of MD5?
Thanks again! /mf/home/jeep/shell/.signature