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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 31.03.2014 23:37, schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> My dovecot.conf has the following:
> 
>     # No results when searching the wiki
>     disable_plaintext_auth = no
> 
>     # http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms
>     auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5
> 
> When I attempt to run imapsync, I receive an error:
> 
>     Host2: <host> says it has NO CAPABILITY for AUTHENTICATE LOGIN
> 
> imapsync also dumps the helo string, and it is missing:
> 
>     Host2: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ... STARTTLS
> AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
> 
> I've restarted the dovecot service with 'service dovecot restart' and
> even rebooted the machine.
> 
> There is nothing reported in any on the log files
> (/var/mail/dovecot.log and /var/log/mail.<level>).
> 
> Any ideas why dovecot is not honoring the setting in its config file?

and the settings are *really* in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
or in some ".d"-folder which may or may not be included?

> **********
> 
> # dovecot --version
> 2.1.7
> # 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
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   ...
>   prefix =
> }
> passdb {
>   args = /var/mail/%d/users
>   driver = passwd-file
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> }
> protocols = " imap pop3"
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> 

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