KMail not able to authenticate

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 17 Aug 2011 Anne Wilson wrote: 
> After what feels like a long struggle I've got my new CentOS mail server
> running to the point where I can run KMail on the same box and see all my
> messages.  Unfortunately, when I try to read the  messages from my netbook
> I am told that authentication method LOGIN is not supported by the server.
> 
> The dovecot configuration file has the line
> 
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> 
> which always allowed login on the old system.   Any ideas where I need to
> look for this?
> 
Found it.  KMail setting needed to be changed from LOGIN to PLAIN

Anne
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