[Dovecot] Can't get apop to work.

[Charles Marcus]

Greg Lorriman, on 2/7/2008 8:20 AM, said the following:
>>> I tried fiddling with PAM by adding an /etc/pam.d/apop file with
>>> these contents :

>> It's impossible to support anything but plaintext authentication with
>> PAM. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms and
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes

> I'm not overly worried about PAM; I just want to get APOP working. 
> But the wiki doesn't give me even the faintest idea, keeping in mind
> that I am relatively new to linux. The same applies to all the other 
> authentication schemes. It only tells me how to change the conf file,
> which doesn't appear to be enough.
> 
> Obviously I am missing something here. But I don't know what.

You still haven't provided concrete details of your system (dovecot 
version, and/or dovecot -n output)...

Read this page, and search on 'apop' - maybe it helps...

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig

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Best regards,

Charles