Dovecot Configuring CRAM-MD5 Authentication Support

Reference 1:HTTP://WIKI2.DOVECOT.ORG/HOWTO/CRAM-MD5

Reference 2:http://susam.in/blog/auth-cram-md5/

1. In/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.cof, modify auth_mechanisms = Cram-md5, and then remove the comment before!include Auth-passwdfile.conf.ext #

2. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext, modify to the following content

Passdb {

Driver = Passwd-file

#args = Scheme=crypt Username_format=%u/etc/dovecot/users

args = Scheme=cram-md5/etc/cram-md5.pwd

}

3. In the Add/etc/cram-md5.pwd file, note the permissions of the file, if the user after using the Send message does not have read access to this file, will not be able to log on successfully, only test, can be modified to 777

4. Error occurred in the process, can view/var/log/syslog

Dovecot Configuring CRAM-MD5 Authentication Support