It’s been awhile since I set up my dovecot instance (like several years) and my transition from 1.x to 2 seems to have not gone well: all I can see is that authentication is banjaxed and I’m not sure what needs to be done to fix it.

# 2.2.32 (dfbe293d4): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE i386
auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login listen = *,[::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_access_groups = mail mail_location = /var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@redacted quota_full_tempfail = no }

Sep 02 07:54:08 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.0.1, lip=192.168.0.25, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:no shared cipher, session=<2hS8DDZYyN7AqAAB> Sep 02 07:54:08 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=47645) Sep 02 07:54:08 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.0.1, lip=192.168.0.25, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:no shared cipher, session=<SFK8DDZYyt7AqAAB> Sep 02 07:54:54 auth: Warning: auth client 0 disconnected with 2 pending requests: EOF Sep 02 07:55:19 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=47714) Sep 02 07:55:19 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.0.1, lip=192.168.0.25, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:no shared cipher, session=<WbD0EDZY2N7AqAAB> Sep 02 07:55:19 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=47716) Sep 02 07:55:19 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.0.1, lip=192.168.0.25, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:no shared cipher, session=<1Qb1EDZY2d7AqAAB>