[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:27 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > How would I do the same under thunderbird from a machine in the same
> > > lan (taz.thespider.com)? It seems to keep trying to login as
> > > boris at mail.thespider.com, which will not fly.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >  Thunderbird logs in using whatever *string* you type in the username box.
> > It doesn't even have to be in the format of an email address...
> >
>      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

How do you determine that it uses such login? From Dovecot's logs? If
this really is happening, there's something weird going on in your
Thunderbird. It shouldn't be appending the server name to your login
name.

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