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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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?
I believe they are in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:

# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | grep -i auth_
auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5
#auth_proxy_self =

Jeff