Well my PostfixAdmin is setup like this:

$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';

and dovecot default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT

So I would have thought that would match OK.

I have tried a password with just AlphaNumeric characters, no special chars but same error.

---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:16:05 +0000 Benny Pedersen <me@junc.eu> wrote ----

On 2022-02-04 18:08, João Silva wrote:
> On 04/02/2022 16:51, Francis Greaves wrote:
>
>> My dovecot-sql.conf.ext file has this line:
>>
>> default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
>>
>> looking in the postfixadmin database passwords are encrypted
>
> How? there are several ways to encrypt passwords. If the
> default_pass_scheme mismatch the way postfixadmin encrypts the
> passwords the verification will fail.

and thats why i asked what is in mysql password field

no info no help here