[Dovecot] Plain Authentication - Outlook not working

F. Even dovecotlists at elitists.org
Mon Mar 14 10:23:56 EET 2005


What problems exist with Thunderbird?  Both my wife and I are using 
Thunderbird with no issues on both OSX and WindowsXP.

(No issues that I'm noticing anyway).  I'm using 1.0 Test 64:

Dovecot v1.0-test64 starting up

Frank

Simon Windsor wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks for the advice, but no luck.
> 
> In the end, I am now using Evolution, which I do not like but it works.
> It appears that Kmails IMAP and Thunderbirds IMAP are broken,
> particularly kmails! 
> 
> Installing Dovecot 1.0.59 improves Dovecots IMAP software, but exposes
> flaws for Kmail and Thunderbird!
> 
> So, until the update to KDE, due at the end of March, I will endure
> Evolution.
> 
> Thanks, once again
> 
> Simon
> 
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:40 -0600, F. Even wrote:
> 
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I tried re-subscribing and still, I get not emails with kmail.
>>>
>>>Outlook appeared to pick the change in Subscription file automatically.
>>>
>>>Any other ideas, or should I drop the IMAP connection and re-do it?
>>
>>I've always had to drop my IMAP connection and reconnect to recognize
>>changes I've made on the server side.  A kill -1 to dovecot will only
>>reload the server process and the login auth processes...it won't kill
>>your already established IMAP connection, which as far as I can tell,
>>keeps using old settings.
>>
>>If you are having that many problems, delete all of your subscriptions
>>files and dovecot caches and start from scratch.  I've had to do it a few
>>times to get things to work as expected.
>>



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