Hi,
It sounds like Dovecot doesn't even start if you enable imaps. In that case it wrote an error message to its log file. See what it is. If you can't find the error, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging I presume it starts, although the ctl file provided in the wiki does nothing. I start it with: $ /usr/local/sbin/dovecot &
$ ps ax /usr/local/etc/dovecot.con 5262 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 5314 ? S 0:00 imap-login 5316 ? S 0:00 imap-login 5326 ? S 0:00 imap-login
So, i guess it's running
Also it's better to test with telnet and openssl s_client than with Thunderbird, since it could also be Thunderbird's configuration that's the problem. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation Telnet says authentication failed.
I'm using qmail-ldap.
[root@mail2 config]# telnet mail2.telbit.pt 143 Trying 192.168.84.128... Connected to mail2.telbit.pt (192.168.84.128). Escape character is '^]'.
- OK Dovecot ready. O LOGIN gamito@mail2.telbit.pt zooropa O NO Authentication failed.
Any ideas ?
Warm Regards, Mário Gamito