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@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@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 theusername 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
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@flibberdygibbet.example.com
When logging in, the dialog box pops up asking for the password for:
bhaskell@flibberdygibbet.example.com@localhost (extra @localhost)
but the auth plain string (with password boobar) is:
AGJoYXNrZWxsQGZsaWJiZXJkeWdpYmJldC5leGFtcGxlLmNvbQBib29iYXI= i.e.: bhaskell@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