On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Charles Marcus wrote

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 Hoeppner<stan@hardwarefreak.com>wrote:

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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.

Actually, I think he did supply that and it showed imap and pop3 not getting any auth information.

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

There are other log options to verbosely log auth and ssl information, and that might help.

I frequently see the above log messages when the client and the server get their security protocol (SSL/TLS) and ports crossed up (i.e. trying IMAP/SSL on port 143 or trying IMAP/TLS on port 993). Try fiddling with TB's setting here and see if anything shakes loose.

You can also use openssl and simulate the server end and maybe that will shed light on the situation:

(You'll have to read the man page yourself to find all the options)
openssl s_server -accept 993 ...

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>