Am 24.03.2019 um 10:01 schrieb Wojciech Puchar via dovecot:
solved by setting saslauthd to authenticate over imap - through dovecot server.testsaslauthd shows it works fine.but it seems sendmail strips domain name from entered login.
No, it is saslauthd. Check the documention and see the "-r" parameter of saslauthd.
Alexander