> Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot? I am > currently using MD5 passwords and I allow only "plain and login” > mechanisms but I want to switch my database to clear text as this will > give me the ability to use more mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5. Is this > possible?
I'm not sure if this is what you mean by saving passwords "through dovecot". But here's how to save a clear-text password when the passdb scheme is not plaintext. Use the {PLAIN} prefix. Example: 10-auth.conf: passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=cram-md5 username_format=%n /path/passdb } /path/passdb: username:{PLAIN}secret User "username" can log in with password "secret" Michael