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cc young

4 Sep 2012 4 Sep '12

7:21 a.m.

cannot get TB to recognize either pop3/s or imap/s server

can connect just fine with:

openssl s_client -connect ms1.myserver.net:993 . login ...

but trying with TB /var/log/mail.log gets:

dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx

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Spyros Tsiolis

4 Sep 4 Sep

8:59 a.m.

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From: cc young bangkokmaco@gmail.com To: dovecot@dovecot.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 7:21 Subject: [Dovecot] thunderbird not connecting

cannot get TB to recognize either pop3/s or imap/s server

can connect just fine with:

openssl s_client -connect ms1.myserver.net:993 . login ...

but trying with TB /var/log/mail.log gets:

dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx

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Thunderbird is not the best of clients out there. It's ok but not the best.

I am using TB on my sites and found out that it has many issues. Can you be a bit more specific ? Are you trying to connect to Secure IMAP ? (993) on dovecot ?

In that case, as far as I remember you have to "fool" Thunderbird during the mail account set up process.

It's a bit crazy, I know but it's true. I have documented everything. Let me know where the hickup is and I'll try to get the docs and let you know how to work around this.

HTH,

"I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise"

Vangelis

Stan Hoeppner

8:02 p.m.

On 9/3/2012 11:21 PM, cc young wrote:

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cannot get TB to recognize either pop3/s or imap/s server

can connect just fine with:

openssl s_client -connect ms1.myserver.net:993 . login ...

but trying with TB /var/log/mail.log gets:

dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx

What does TB activity manager say?

-- Stan

cc "maco" young

5 Sep 5 Sep

1:23 p.m.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Stan Hoeppner stan@hardwarefreak.comwrote:

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On 9/3/2012 11:21 PM, cc young wrote:

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cannot get TB to recognize either pop3/s or imap/s server

can connect just fine with:

openssl s_client -connect ms1.myserver.net:993 . login ...

but trying with TB /var/log/mail.log gets:

dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx

What does TB activity manager say?

Activity Manager is blank

as an update, went to Claws email client. it had enough feedback and gave me enough ways to tweak - got everything going.

went back to TB. recognized server, but no username/password. perhaps it's not letting the full email - which is the user name - through. but who knows? no feedback.

Charles Marcus

2:02 p.m.

On 2012-09-05 6:23 AM, cc maco young bangkokmaco@gmail.com wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Stan Hoeppnerstan@hardwarefreak.comwrote:

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What does TB activity manager say?

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Activity Manager is blank

as an update, went to Claws email client. it had enough feedback and gave me enough ways to tweak - got everything going.

went back to TB. recognized server, but no username/password. perhaps it's not letting the full email - which is the user name - through. but who knows? no feedback.

You're looking at the wrong end.

You need to be looking at your SERVER logs, not the Clients.

Best regards,

Charles

cc "maco" young

2:18 p.m.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.comwrote:

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On 2012-09-05 6:23 AM, cc maco young bangkokmaco@gmail.com wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Stan Hoeppnerstan@hardwarefreak.com

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wrote:

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What does TB activity manager say?

Activity Manager is blank

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as an update, went to Claws email client. it had enough feedback and gave me enough ways to tweak - got everything going.

went back to TB. recognized server, but no username/password. perhaps it's not letting the full email - which is the user name - through. but who knows? no feedback.

You're looking at the wrong end.

You need to be looking at your SERVER logs, not the Clients.

yes, you are right. will get back.

Stan Hoeppner

6 Sep 6 Sep

5:36 a.m.

On 9/5/2012 6:02 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:

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On 2012-09-05 6:23 AM, cc maco young bangkokmaco@gmail.com wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Stan Hoeppnerstan@hardwarefreak.comwrote:

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What does TB activity manager say?

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Activity Manager is blank

as an update, went to Claws email client. it had enough feedback and gave me enough ways to tweak - got everything going.

went back to TB. recognized server, but no username/password. perhaps it's not letting the full email - which is the user name - through. but who knows? no feedback.

You're looking at the wrong end.

You need to be looking at your SERVER logs, not the Clients.

He'd already checked the server logs, posted some of them, and found no useful information. Checking the client log is the next logical step, whether it turns out to contain useful information or not.

In a client/server application, instructing someone to only check half the logs is bad advice Charles. Useful troubleshooting information can be found in either, or both, depending on the circumstances and operation that's failing.

-- Stan

Charles Marcus

1:17 p.m.

On 2012-09-05 10:36 PM, Stan Hoeppner stan@hardwarefreak.com wrote:

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He'd already checked the server logs, posted some of them, and found no useful information. Checking the client log is the next logical step, whether it turns out to contain useful information or not. In a client/server application, instructing someone to only check half the logs is bad advice Charles. Useful troubleshooting information can be found in either, or both, depending on the circumstances and operation that's failing.

That's what I get for replying in the middle of a thread without reading the whole thing... sorry...

Been really busy at $dayjob, and haven't had time to read the lists I'm on for a couple of weeks now.

And I didn't advise him to *only* check half the logs, I thought he was *starting out* with the client logs. Of course you're correct that once he'd determined that no auth attempts were happening, checking the client side is the next logical step.

But then someone else suggested that it was just because Thunderbird was crapware, which is just plain stupid. If Thunderbird isn't AUTH'ing, it is a config (thus, user) error.

Best regards,

Charles

Bill Shirley

7 Sep 7 Sep

1:50 a.m.

Turn on more debugging with these in your configuration: auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes mail_debug = yes verbose_ssl = yes

and then check the server logs after trying to login.

Also, I'm curious why you masked your PRIVATE ip address and not your public one.

Bill

On 9/4/2012 12:21 AM, cc young wrote:

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cannot get TB to recognize either pop3/s or imap/s server

can connect just fine with:

openssl s_client -connect ms1.myserver.net:993 . login ...

but trying with TB /var/log/mail.log gets:

dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234, lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx

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