[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot
Benjamin R. Haskell
dovecot at benizi.com
Sun May 4 04:12:14 EEST 2008
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.
Timo and Ed are right. Thunderbird should be using the string exactly as
you type it in the username field. It looks like a user-interface issue. I
just setup an account at localhost with the username:
bhaskell at flibberdygibbet.example.com
When logging in, the dialog box pops up asking for the password for:
bhaskell at flibberdygibbet.example.com@localhost
(extra @localhost)
but the auth plain string (with password boobar) is:
AGJoYXNrZWxsQGZsaWJiZXJkeWdpYmJldC5leGFtcGxlLmNvbQBib29iYXI=
i.e.: bhaskell at flibberdygibbet.example.comboobar
(no @localhost)
This is with a relatively old Linux Thunderbird, but still, It's probably
not actually using the extra domain when logging in.
Best,
Ben
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