On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

Is thunderbird set to use pop3 or imap?

It can do both. I'd rather use imap but I am that kind of guy. ;)

Anyway, I don't support thunderbird as I have never used it, but I can tell you how to connect to imap via telnet:

telnet mail.thespider.com 143 1 login boris@mail.thespider.com creepycrawly 1 logout

You can see this: http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/troubleshooting/troubleshooting_imap

  This is what happened:

[raub@yakko ~]$ telnet mail.thespider.com 143

Trying 192.168.1.12... Connected to mail.thespider.com (192.168.1.12). Escape character is '^]'.

• OK dovecot ready.

1 login boris@mail.thespider.com creepycrawly 1 NO Authentication failed. 1 login boris@thespider.com creepycrawly 1 OK Logged in. 1 logout

• BYE Logging out 1 OK Logout completed.

Connection closed by foreign host. [raub@yakko ~]$

I wonder if it has to do with the fact the virtual mailbox domain I created in postfix is defined as thespider.com while the machine running postfix/dovecot is mail.thespider.com.

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Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223

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