checkpw / bincimap authentication problems

From: Mark Hobley (markhobley_at_hotpop.deletethisbit.com)
Date: 07/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:08:04 GMT

I have installed bincimap on my mail server, but I am having problems with
login.

I am testing the interface with telnet as follows:

mark@venus:~$ telnet neptune 143
Trying 10.0.0.8...
Connected to neptune.markhobley.yi.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Welcome to Binc IMAP Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Andreas Aardal Hanssen at
2005-07-19 12:02:23 BST
1 login mark postbox
1 NO LOGIN failed: Plain text password authentication is disallowed. Please
try enabling SSL or TLS in your mail client.
Connection closed by foreign host.

/etc/bincimap/bincimap.conf on the mail server "neptune" contains the following
entry:

Authentication {

    allow plain auth in non ssl = "yes", /* allow login or

                                                      authenticate

                                                      when not in

                                                      SSL/TLS mode */

/etc/inetd.conf on the mail server "neptune" contains the following entry:

imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/bincimap-up \
/usr/sbin/bincimap-up --conf=/etc/bincimap/bincimap.conf --logtype=syslog \
-- /usr/bin/checkpw /usr/sbin/bincimapd

A telnet session to neptune shows:

mark@neptune:~/Maildir$ cat /home/mark/Maildir/.password
postbox

How do I fix this ?

I do not wish to use SSL.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Mark. 

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