Hi again Timo,
Yep. Looks like you're right.
After my post yesterday I changed something and now nothing works.
Looks like I'll have to dig a little deeper on the docs.
Thank you again,
s.
--- On Sat, 2/1/10, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
> From: Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] What auth ?
> To: "Spyros Tsiolis" <sts...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot@dovecot.org>
> Date: Saturday, 2 January, 2010, 22:10
> On 2.1.2010, at 13.47, Spyros Tsiolis
> wrote:
>
> > Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info:
> passwd-file(postmaster,127.0.0.1): lookup: user=postmaster
> file=/etc/dovecot/passwd
> > Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info:
> passwd-file(postmaster,127.0.0.1): unknown user
>
> "postmaster" doesn't exist in /etc/dovecot/passwd file.
>
> > Jan 02 19:15:26 imap-login: Info: Authenticate PLAIN
> failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: method=PLAIN,
> rip=127.0.
> ..
> > AFAIK, I disabled plain auth and enabled digest-md5.
>
> I guess you mean you set auth { mechanisms = digest-md5 }?
> Yeah, that'll cause plaintext auth attempts to fail and
> probably isn't what you wanted. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication may be
> helpful.
