On 13.12.2010, at 15.39, Ted To wrote: > I'm trying to set up SMTP authentication on my server and am getting an > authentication failed error. My client is set up to automatically > select authentication method and tries CRAM_MD5. The > http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL suggests "passdb > pam" and "userdb passwd" -- is it possible to configure sasl > authentication using a dovecot.conf like http://pastebin.com/6JWE5jp1?
CRAM-MD5 is incompatible with PAM. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms