On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > > Am 31.03.2014 23:37, schrieb Jeffrey Walton: >> My dovecot.conf has the following: >> >> # No results when searching the wiki >> disable_plaintext_auth = no >> >> # http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms >> auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 >> >> When I attempt to run imapsync, I receive an error: >> >> Host2: <host> says it has NO CAPABILITY for AUTHENTICATE LOGIN >> >> imapsync also dumps the helo string, and it is missing: >> >> Host2: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ... STARTTLS >> AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. >> >> I've restarted the dovecot service with 'service dovecot restart' and >> even rebooted the machine. >> >> There is nothing reported in any on the log files >> (/var/mail/dovecot.log and /var/log/mail.<level>). >> >> Any ideas why dovecot is not honoring the setting in its config file? > > and the settings are *really* in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > or in some ".d"-folder which may or may not be included? I believe they are in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | grep -i auth_ auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 #auth_proxy_self = Jeff
