Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext auth): method=PLAIN

On 01/27/11 05:57 AM, John Espiro wrote:

First, my problem. Settings are below that...

Everything works fine - I can login to webmail (users are tied to LDAP). I can send and receive email via my Thunderbird Client.

However in my mail.err log I see lots of messages that say:

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext auth): method=PLAIN 1.) What does that mean, and how can I solve it?

This looks like you are trying to connect to pop3 without SSL or TLS. If you really want to allow plaintext over a non-secure connection then you need to use the following.

disable_plaintext_auth = no

Paul