And you also tested the external with the {PLAIN} too, right? Well, maybe it
also wants nopassword=y extra field. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile how to add it. Maybe I should
add {ANY} or something that makes "accept any password" easy..
On 17.3.2010, at 0.41, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> Hi.
>
> It didn't work. I tried first with {EXTERNAL} and then with {PLAIN} the
> result below was the same in both cases.
>
> ---
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
> AUTH=EXTERNAL] Dovecot ready.
> a LOGIN username-from-cert ""
> a NO [ALERT] Unsupported authentication mechanism.
> DONE
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Stephen Feyrer
>
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:12:11 -0000, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On 17.3.2010, at 0.04, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
>>
>>> The tests using SASL and SASL-IR in Thunderbird both fail to authenticate.
>>> I have tried using openssl s_client with the same result. I've run the
>>> auth command in three ways just to be sure I got the second example right.
>>> I even checked to make sure I've spelt my name right and the case of the
>>> letters.
>>
>> EXTERNAL auth works only if this this also works:
>>
>> a LOGIN username-from-cert ""
>>
>> i.e. login with empty password.
>>
>>> passdb:
>>> driver: passwd-file
>>> args: /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
>>> userdb:
>>> driver: passwd
>>>
>>> /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
>>> Stephen:{EXTERNAL}
>>
>> So try {PLAIN} here.
>>
>>
>
