On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:09:30PM +0100, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: > yes sounds likely, I am attempting to authenticate using the text: > LOGIN username password
(with a tag in front of the command) > With zero logged to the debug log... With courier IMAP this works by > default, I guess by default it doesnt work with dovecot... If you want it, set this in dovecot.conf: disable_plaintext_auth = no Basically dovecot is taking the secure approach by default. If the client is connected without encryption, then they should not be sending a plaintext password, as it's easily sniffed. The above config removes this policy. Or: try making an encrypted (imaps) connection, like this: openssl s_client -connect 127.0.0.1:993 HTH, Brian.
