Re: [Dovecot] Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism

On 1.7.2005, at 02:24, Orchun Kolcu wrote:

I just switched (or tried to) from UW-IMAP to dovecot. When I try to login through the telnet client I get: 1 NO Authentication failed and in the log I get: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism

This error happens if you haven't set "mechanisms = plain" in auth block in config file.

Here's the auth setup from the conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam imap userdb = passwd user = root }

But this shows that you have set it, so it's a bit strange.. Do you have multiple auth blocks defined maybe?