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

[John Espiro]

Yep - despite the above, I still get mail.  And from my conf files,
plain auth is disabled.  Should I re-port my conf file in case I missed
something?

John

On 1/28/2011 2:48 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
> So you successfully get mail via your pop client in spite of the above.
>
> My guess is somehow the client first tries plain authentication without
> STARTTLS before trying STARTTLS.
>
> In my case with pop3 and T'bird I use
>
> Port 995
> Connection security: SSL/TLS
> Authentication: Normal password
>
> I haven't tried port 110 and STARTTLS (mostly I use IMAP anyway).
>