No AUTH PLAIN with dovecot 2.0.19

Robert Schetterer rs at sys4.de
Mon Sep 29 14:09:32 UTC 2014


Am 29.09.2014 um 14:53 schrieb Michael Wechner:
> Hi
> 
> I have installed the package dovecot-postfix on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
> 
> dovecot --version: 2.0.19
> postconf -d | grep version: 2.9.6
> 
> and receiving email works very fine, but relaying email does not work.
> 
> I think the problem is that after STARTTLS the authentication is not
> being executed
> 
> 250-AUTH PLAIN
> 250-AUTH=PLAIN
> 
> which means using telnet returns
> 
> telnet mx2.wyona.com 587
> Trying 50.116.54.197...
> Connected to node3.wyona.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 node3.members.linode.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
> EHLO letscallitevil.com
> 250-node3.members.linode.com
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-SIZE 10240000
> 250-VRFY
> 250-ETRN
> 250-STARTTLS
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250 DSN
> 
> So far I have used dovecot version 1.2.9, which works very fine, but the
> configuration
> 
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> seems to be very different in the case of dovecot version 2.0.19.
> 
> I have checked all kind of tutorials for several days now, like for example
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/postfix.html
> 
> but nothing helped.
> 
> Any pointers or help is very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael
> 

However you might fix that problem , it would better go Trusty
which has more recent version

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/dovecot-core

2.2.9


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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