Ahh, apparently disable_plaintext_auth was set to 'yes' by default. I
set it to "no" and now it works :-)

On Dec 19, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:

Ok, so now I have 1.0 running. That error I had before went away,
but now I have a new error. When I do "USER user@foo.org" over a
telnet to dovecot on my test server I get "-ERR Plaintext
authentication disabled." as a response. This is puzzling because
in dovecot-sql.conf I have "default_pass_scheme = PLAIN" and in
dovecot.conf in the auth default {} section I have "mechanisms =
plain"

I wrote the configs from scratch this time, so they are very short;
there they are in their entirety:

=== dovecot.conf ===

ssl_disable = yes

protocols = pop3 pop3s

default_mail_env = maildir:~/

auth default { mechanisms = plain login

passdb sql {
    args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
}
userdb sql {
    args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
}

}

=== dovecot-sql.conf ===

driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost dbname=mails user=mailreader
password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM
users WHERE userid = '%u'

On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:

...

Shoot, I'm using 0.99.14. I should have known Debian was a version
behind (it always is). I'll compile 1.0 by hand and give it a
shot, I hear the configs go by different rules in 1.0. Thanks for
alerting me about the version.

I'll let you know how it goes with 1.0, Patrick

On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Curtis Maloney wrote:

...

Patrick Rutkowski wrote:

...

Any clues would be much appreciated,

A clue to which version of Dovecot you're using would also be
welcomed...

-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net