# for some users, you can authenticate them without any privileges in a
# separate auth process. Just remember that only one auth process is asked
# for the password, so you can't have different passwords with different
-# processes (unless they have different auth methods, and you're ok with
-# having different password for each method).
+# processes (unless they have different auth mechanisms, and you're ok with
+# having different password for each mechanism).
# Executable location
#auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
# privileges, so it may be 0600-root owned file.
#auth digest_md5 {
-# auth_methods = digest-md5
+# auth_mechanisms = digest-md5
# auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
# auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
# auth_user = imapauth
#}
# if you plan to use only passwd-file, you don't need the two auth processes,
-# simply set "auth_methods = plain digest-md5"
+# simply set "auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5"