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

[Oscar del Rio]

On 04/ 1/14 06:56 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Charles Marcus
> <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
>> 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
> # doveconf -n | head -1
> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Check ALL actual settings:

# doveconf -a | grep mechanisms
auth_mechanisms = plain login ......

I guess yours is missing "login" and using only "auth", as the default 
(hence not showing in "doveconf -n").
You should still be able to use imapsync with --authmech1 PLAIN 
--authmech2 PLAIN