On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:50:28PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Andy Smith wrote: > > Update on this problem, > > seems the only issue I had was that the telnet method of verifying > > IMAP authentication that works on Courier just doesnt work with > > Dovecot. > > What did you use? What did you see in response? Correct syntax is simply > > a login username password
... although now I come to think of it, you may need to enable this in dovecot.conf first, since by default it won't allow a plaintext login over an unsecured channel.
