[Dovecot] plain text auth

[Chris Wakelin]

ohp at pyrenet.fr wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is my second try with dovecot, and still no luck.
> What I want is twig to work with dovecot on the localhost address .
> 
> I need to authenticate through pam for real accounts and through pgsql for
> virtual ones.
> 
> I just cant autenticate:
> logs are : imap-:login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported
> authentication  mechanism
> or: Aborted login: method = PLAIN
> 
> Could someone please share a working config file that does what I want?
> I'm struggling for weeks now both on tyhe alpha5 and beta1 versions.
> 
> TIA
> 

What do you get if you "telnet localhost 143" then type ". CAPABILITY"
(then ". LOGOUT")? Does it include "AUTH=PLAIN"? What do you have for
"mechanisms" and "disable_plaintext_auth"?

Best Wishes,
Chris

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