On 2012-05-08 15:22, Frank Elsner wrote:
[About exim authenticating PLAIN and LOGIN against dovecot auth socket]
> PLAIN Authentication works perfect, LOGIN gives
> 2012-05-08 15:08:43 login authenticator failed for xxxxxx.tu-berlin.de [130.149.X.YY]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket protocol error
This is just a guess since I'm not too good at dovecot, but could it be
that you need to set at least "auth_mechanisms = plain login" your in
dovecot config?
Regards
/Jonas
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