On 25.05.2011 03:29, Steven Jones wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have a setup guide for Thunderbird and Dovecot on Debian please?

Dovecot is 1.0.15

I have Dovecot running listening on 143 and I can telnet from the XP guest but Thunderbird cant or wont talk to it.

Did I get this right: You can telnet to port 143 of the server?

I have taken the # off listen and I get a telnet reply, no firewall is configured....

Ive set thunderbird up lots so I suspect its not Thunderbird but a dovecot config I have wrong.

regards

Perhaps Thunderbird wants to talk via SSL (Port 993)?

If that is not the case, the common recommendation is to look into the logs at the server side (/var/log/syslog, /var/log/mail and so on). For further details and how to increase the debug level, look here: http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Logging

If that doesn't help, install Thunderbird's addon accountex, export your account settings to a file (don't forget to clear your logins and passwords before doing so) and provide them to the community so that somebody could take a look.

Regards,

Peter