Re: major email problems

2019-05-19 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:39 PM mick crane wrote: > https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation TestInstallation is lovely document. I got Dovecot to answer everything pretty well, considering that TLS and such don't apply here (the server is on my LAN, and it's just 10 or 20 feet of Cat5e away).

Re: major email problems

2019-05-19 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 6:06 AM mick crane wrote: > > which file are you editing ? > I think how it works is that apt puts its files in /usr/share/dovecot > and update overwrites those, whereas "your" files are in /etc/dovecot. Didn't know about the configs in share, but I was working on /etc/dov

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-19 00:58, Glenn English wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:39 PM mick crane wrote: https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation That looks great -- first thing in the morning :-) which file are you editing ? I think how it works is that apt puts its files in /usr/share/dovecot and

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:39 PM mick crane wrote: > https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation That looks great -- first thing in the morning :-) -- Glenn English

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:29 PM Kushal Kumaran wrote: > The documentation for the disable_plaintext_auth parameter seems like it > is exactly what you need to tweak. I cannot tell why you didn't run > into this earlier. I did. But what I did to try to get it to work, didn't. -- Glenn English

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:39 PM mick crane wrote: > Dunno why it suddenly stopped working. I don't either. > The commented out lines in the config file normally show the default. Oh, yeah. I knew that once :-) Copying the line, uncommenting it, and change it to 'no' made the fail take longer

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-18 23:58, Glenn English wrote: I couldn't find anything in the Dovecot config files that addressed that, except a commented out line: "#disable_plaintext_auth = yes." But Dovecot seems to be tossing PLAINTEXT anyway. I didn't try deleting the line. Dunno why it suddenly stopped wor

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Glenn English writes: > Buster, Stretch, Wheezy > > I know this is probably the wrong place to ask, but DU is full of > knowledgeable folks... > > This morning I quit receiving IMAP email (Dovecot, Thunderbird). I > installed and tried several other clients (iMail, Geary, Sylpheed) and > none wor

major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread Glenn English
Buster, Stretch, Wheezy I know this is probably the wrong place to ask, but DU is full of knowledgeable folks... This morning I quit receiving IMAP email (Dovecot, Thunderbird). I installed and tried several other clients (iMail, Geary, Sylpheed) and none worked. They said things like my Authenti