[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

[Uldis Pakuls]

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.
I think you are just confused by Thuderbirds messages saying something 
like "login: user at host" - it's  just generic form to display login info. 
"@host" part is never used for login.

Uldis