On 30 Apr 2021, at 11:17, Steve Dondley <s...@dondley.com> wrote:
> In 10-auth.conf, I have "disable_plaintext_auth = yes"
> 
> For port 143, I'd like to do something like this to override that setting:
> 
> service imap-login {
>  inet_listener imap {
>    port = 143
>    disable_plain_text_auth = no
>  }
> }

Are you sure you want to allow insecure plain text easily intercepted trivially 
hacked connections to your mail server? 

> Based on https://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess and 
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/service_configuration/ it 
> doesn't seem like this is supported. But maybe there is another way to 
> accomplish this?

You are specifically turning off plaintext auth, the is going to do what it 
says on the tin.

BTW, there is no reasons to turn off plain text auth if you are using SSL as 
you should be.

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