On Tue, 08 May 2012 19:47:39 +0200 Jonas Eckerman wrote: > 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?
Yeah, that was it! You made my day! --Frank Elsner
