On 5/3/2008, Mauricio Tavares (raubvogel@gmail.com) wrote:
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@thespider.com, it will try to login as boris@thespider.com@mail.thespider.com
What are you using for auth? That is where you should be looking.
Assuming I understood the question (It's brain dead Saturday!) I have dovecot setup as
auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5
but right now I am just doing the plain authentication. After all this mail server is still not finished so only machines in the lan can even see it. Once I am satisfied, I'll add tls and all that good stuff. If this matters, I have no problems accessing the mail server using pine, where I set the path to the inbox as
But what are you using on the backend? Password scheme/db?
Have you read all of the pages here?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication
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Best regards,
Charles