[Dovecot] Authentication problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:29 +0100, Rodti MacLeary wrote:
> In this install Postfix passes SASL authentication to Dovecot.  For most
> clients using SSL this works fine, but as soon as SSL is off it fails. 
> This is despite having disable_plaintext_auth set to 'no'.  Furthermore it
> appears that some clients w/SSL are also failing.  Outlook being the major
> culprit.  I'm completely stumped.

Dovecot's disable_plaintext_auth setting doesn't affect Postfix.

> I've pasted a copy of the output from dovecot -n below.

Logs would be much more helpful. Set auth_debug=yes and show logs of a
successful and a failing session. Both Dovecot and Postfix logs.

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