[Dovecot] Thunderbird log-in --->Authentication failed - password in uppercase in log files

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 11:03 +0200, jacques wrote:

> Trying to set up thunderbird to connect to this server I get problems -
> seems as if the password is resolved proper from the database (use
> postfixadmin), but then compares an upper  case version of my password
> in the MD5-CRYPT() call to the password string obtained from the
> database. I do see the base64 encoded connection string in dovecot log
> though.

Like the base64 string also says: the IMAP client sent the password
uppercased..

Try manually: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestInstallation