{"id":417,"date":"2017-01-02T20:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=417"},"modified":"2017-02-10T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T21:05:09","slug":"enable-plaintext-authentication-for-email-on-whm-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/enable-plaintext-authentication-for-email-on-whm-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Plaintext authentication for email on WHM cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How to enable Plaintext authentication for email on WHM\/cPanel<\/h2>\n<h3>Server returned error &#8220;[AUTH] Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL\/TLS) connections&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>By default cPanel dovecot mail server disable Plaintext authentication meaning that to connect to your mailserver you have to use SSL\/TLS connection protocol , to allow Plaintext authentication immediately you have to login to your server using SSH puTTY software as root privilege account and edit dovecot.conf configuration file by running the following command<\/p>\n<div class=\"cmd\">\n<div><span class=\"prompt\"> vi \/etc\/dovecot\/dovecot.conf<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>and change the disable_plaintext_auth = yes to <code> disable_plaintext_auth = no <\/code><\/p>\n<p>then type :wq to save the changes , now you need to restart dovecot service<\/p>\n<div class=\"cmd\">\n<div><span class=\"prompt\"> service dovecot restart<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\" bold danger\">Please note that this is not presist changes , becuase each time the cPanel make an update it will overrides dovecot.conf to the default values; to avoid this you have to make this option as default in cPanel configuration by following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to Home &gt;&gt; Service Configuration &gt;&gt; Mailserver Configuration<\/li>\n<li>locate Allow Plaintext Authentication (from remote clients) &#8220;This setting will allow remote email clients to authenticate using unencrypted connections. When set to \u201cno\u201d&#8221; <strong>just set this option to Yes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>then Save Changes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>and now you are safe to continue using this option even if the cPanel update process start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to enable Plaintext authentication for email on WHM\/cPanel Server returned error &#8220;[AUTH] Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL\/TLS) connections&#8221; By default cPanel dovecot mail server disable Plaintext authentication meaning that to connect to your mailserver you have to use SSL\/TLS connection protocol , to allow Plaintext authentication immediately you have to login to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,40,5],"tags":[67,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}