cant login to Dovecot

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Walter Ulmke wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:23:30 +0200
> From: Walter Ulmke <ulw at ulmke.com>
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: cant login to Dovecot
> 
> On 2018-06-12 13:14, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Walter Ulmke wrote:
>> 
>>> un 12 12:30:06 ulmke2 dovecot[5814]: auth: Fatal: APOP mechanism can't be 
>>> supported with given passdbs
>> 
>> Config error.
>> 
>> "Fatal" sounds fatal ;-)

see below. Update your mechs

>> 
>>> stats: open(old-stats-user) failed: Permission denied

There is no stats config.

>> Likewise config error, but not fatal.
>> 
>> Post your config
>>

> auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous 
> gssapi

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms?highlight=(apop)

APOP: This is a POP3-specific authentication. Similar to CRAM-MD5, but 
requires storing password in plaintext.

But PAM does not offer access to plain/text, IMHO.

> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character 
> vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags 
> copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave 
> duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
> namespace inbox {
>  inbox = yes
>  location =
>  mailbox Drafts {
>    special_use = \Drafts
>  }
>  mailbox Junk {
>    special_use = \Junk
>  }
>  mailbox Sent {
>    special_use = \Sent
>  }
>  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>    special_use = \Sent
>  }
> mailbox Trash {
>    special_use = \Trash
>  }
>  prefix =
> }
> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>  sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
> }
> ssl = no
> ssl_cipher_list = 
> ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!ADH:!LOW at STRENGTH
> ssl_options = no_compression
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
> userdb {
>  driver = passwd
> }
>
>
>

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Steffen Kaiser
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