I am not having much luck with resolving my authentication issue. The environment is "SunOS 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine".

dovecot-1.0.alpha5 ./configure --with-passwd --with-shadow --with-pam --with-checkpassword --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir

# telnet 172.16.0.40 143 Trying 172.16.0.40... Connected to 172.16.0.40. Escape character is '^]'. password in plaintext anyway. If anyone was listening, the password was

• OK mailhub is for business purposes only. Usage is monitored. A01 login username mypassword
• BAD [ALERT] Plaintext authentication is disabled, but your client sent

exposed. A01 NO Plaintext authentication disabled. A04 Logout

• BYE Logging out A04 OK Logout completed. Connection to 172.16.0.40 closed by foreign host.

*I have tried adding digest-md5 cram-md5 and shadow but Dovecot will not start.* auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain

*Dovecot will not start when I tried these options. Maybe I am entering this wrong?*

passdb shadow { /etc/shadow } passdb passwd { /etc/passwd }

Any assistance would be appreciated.

-- Best regards,

Michael