[Dovecot] dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext auth): method=PLAIN

[Paul Griffith]

On 01/27/11 05:57 AM, John Espiro wrote:
> First, my problem.  Settings are below that...
>
> Everything works fine - I can login to webmail (users are tied to
> LDAP).  I can send and receive email via my Thunderbird Client.
>
> However in my mail.err log I see lots of messages that say:
>
> dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext
> auth): method=PLAIN
> 1.) What does that mean, and how can I solve it?

This looks like you are trying to connect to pop3 without SSL or TLS. If 
you really want to allow plaintext over a non-secure connection then you 
need to use the following.

disable_plaintext_auth = no

Paul