On 16.5.2012, at 19.36, Manuel Fernández Panzuela wrote: > Hello > > I need to authenticate dovecot against openldap. OpenLdap's authentication > method requires SHA. > How must I set dovecot ? .. > #mechanisms = plain SHA .. > If I uncomment #mechanisms = plain SHA Dovecot doesn't start, the error: > dovecot: auth(default): Unknown authentication mechanism 'SHA'
You're confusing the difference between authentication mechanism and password scheme. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication You want to use SHA1 as password scheme but still PLAIN mechanism.
