Re: why is dovecot "Allowing any password"

On 2018-03-21 (14:15 MDT), mj lists@merit.unu.edu wrote:

Even when the connection is denied because of a wrong password, the message "Allowing any password" is showing up in the logs.

The question is does it allow remote users to login with no password?

If not, then the message ie nearly notification that login without a password is potentially possible.

I have no idea why you would have nopassword=y set in the first place, so it seems the simplest way to eliminate this problem is to take that out and have a secure environment for sending mail.

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