[Dovecot] Dovecot not honoring configuration settings (auth failure)

[Charles Marcus]

On 4/1/2014 6:34 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Charles Marcus
> <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> What you are missing is that there is a very good reason that ONLY the
>> output of doveconf -n is wanted here...
>>
>> It proves that you are using the settings you think you are using.
>>
> # doveconf -n
> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686 Debian 7.4
> disable_plaintext_auth = no

So... where is auth_mechanisms? You said you had it set to

auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5

Fix this and try again...

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Best regards,

Charles