[Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.3.2010, at 0.04, Stephen Feyrer wrote:

> The tests using SASL and SASL-IR in Thunderbird both fail to authenticate.  I have tried using openssl s_client with the same result.  I've run the auth command in three ways just to be sure I got the second example right.  I even checked to make sure I've spelt my name right and the case of the letters.

EXTERNAL auth works only if this this also works:

a LOGIN username-from-cert ""

i.e. login with empty password.

>  passdb:
>    driver: passwd-file
>    args: /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd
> 
> /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
> Stephen:{EXTERNAL}

So try {PLAIN} here.