Please help> Unknown setting: mechanisms

I have his error when i have edit the dovecot.conf

Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 893: Unknown setting: mechanisms

Code:

# Number of seconds to delay before replying to failed authentications.
#auth_failure_delay = 2

auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
}

  # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
  #   plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
  # NOTE: See also disable_plaintext_auth setting.
  mechanisms =  plain

 

The last lines say:

Code:

  # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
  #   plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
  # NOTE: See also disable_plaintext_auth setting.
  mechanisms =  plain

You should comment out the last line as well

Code:

  # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
  #   plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
  # NOTE: See also disable_plaintext_auth setting.
  #mechanisms =  plain

 

Hi friend, Please make sure your auth_mechanism is correct or not.
mechanisms = plain <something else> [eg.mechanisms = plain cram-md5]
Note: Without using dovecot.config edit those thing inside the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ . Because it's good to learn what are they actually then you can understand the functions.