> On 14/05/2026 02:11 EEST David Koski via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello,
> 
> I just put a new Postfix with Dovecot 2.4 server on line migrating the 
> email from Dovecot 2.3.  I have discovered a number of clients (all 
> copiers so far) that no longer authenticate SMTP.  Mechanisms configured:
> 
> auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi cram-md5 digest-md5
> 
> I found that if I disable all encrypted password methods (some copiers 
> list them separately with a checkbox) and leave only plain/login on the 
> client side, then it succeeds.  But sometimes it is not necessary.  It's 
> almost as if it only tries once and gives up if it fails.  I'm not sure 
> how it is actually supposed to work.  But it worked with Dovecot 2.3.  I 
> did test one account with an encrypted password like "{CRAM-MD5}6e3..." 
> successfully.  But other accounts failed.  It almost looks like the 
> encryption method must be specified on the client side to match the 
> server before it will work consistently.  I know that password 
> encryption is unnecessary with STARTTLS but I have to live with it now.  
> I have noticed that Thunderbird configured with encryption silently 
> falls back to plain/login so I didn't notice a problem.
> 
> Regards,
> David Koski
> [email protected]

Hi!

Can you send doveconf and logs with `log_debug=category=auth` please?

Aki

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