dovecot - Mar 2014 - Dovecot not honoring configuration settings (auth failure)

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?

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# dovecot --version
2.1.7
# doveconf -n
# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686 Debian 7.4
disable_plaintext_auth = no
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location   mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  ...
  prefix }
passdb {
  args = /var/mail/%d/users
  driver = passwd-file
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
protocols = " imap pop3"
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}

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?
> **********
> 
> # dovecot --version
> 2.1.7
> # doveconf -n
> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686 Debian 7.4
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location >   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   ...
>   prefix > }
> passdb {
>   args = /var/mail/%d/users
>   driver = passwd-file
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> }
> protocols = " imap pop3"
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> 
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On 3/31/2014 5:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com>
wrote:
> My dovecot.conf has the following:
You still have yet to prove this (doveconf -n output).
>      # No results when searching the wiki
>      disable_plaintext_auth = no
Then you are searching the wiki wrong.

After entering the parameter in the searchbox (obviously you should not 
add the '=no' part), did you click 'Titles'? Or 'Text'?
Or did you just
hit [enter]?

You have to click the 'Text' button (to the right of the searchbox) to 
search the article CONTENT. Just hitting [Enter] results in a simple 
'Titles' search, which only searches the wiki article Titles.

Personally I don't like this. I think the default should be to search 
content.
>      #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>).
Then you are looking at the wrong log files.
> Any ideas why dovecot is not honoring the setting in its config file?
Best guess is you are not using the config file you think you are using.

What distro is this?

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Best regards,

Charles