[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Sat May 3 18:02:27 EEST 2008
On 5/3/2008, Mauricio Tavares (raubvogel at gmail.com) wrote:
>>> It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the
>>> username box to the front of the name of the mail server. So, if
>>> I have the username as boris at thespider.com, it will try to login
>>> as boris at thespider.com@mail.thespider.com
>> What are you using for auth? That is where you should be looking.
> Assuming I understood the question (It's brain dead Saturday!) I
> have dovecot setup as
>
> auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5
>
> but right now I am just doing the plain authentication. After all this
> mail server is still not finished so only machines in the lan can even
> see it. Once I am satisfied, I'll add tls and all that good stuff. If
> this matters, I have no problems accessing the mail server using pine,
> where I set the path to the inbox as
But what are you using on the backend? Password scheme/db?
Have you read all of the pages here?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication
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Best regards,
Charles
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