[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot
Let's say I have a postfix box, named mail.thespider.com, which is setup to handle virtual mailbox domains. One of these domains will handle is, thespider.com, and my email address in that domain is boris@thespider.com. As I setup dovecot, I can telnet to the pop3 port (110) and test it by logging in as boris@thespider.com (I would try the imap port but I do not know how to login to imap from the telnet prompt):
[raub@taz ~]$ telnet mail.thespider.com 110 Trying 192.168.1.12... Connected to mail.thespider.com (192.168.1.12). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user boris@thespider.com +OK pass creepycrawly +OK Logged in. quit +OK Logging out. Connection closed by foreign host. [raub@taz ~]$
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.
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...
Ed
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
Ed
On 5/2/2008 Mauricio Tavares wrote:
It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the username 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
What are you using for auth? That is where you should be looking.
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Charles Marcus <CMarcus@media-brokers.com> wrote:
On 5/2/2008 Mauricio Tavares wrote:
It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the username 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
What are you using for auth? That is where you should be looking.
Assuming I understood the question (It's brain dead Saturday!) Ihave dovecot setup as
auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5
but right now I am just doing the plain authentication. After all this mail server is still not finished so only machines in the lan can even see it. Once I am satisfied, I'll add tls and all that good stuff. If this matters, I have no problems accessing the mail server using pine, where I set the path to the inbox as
inbox-path={192.168.1.12/notls/user=boris@thespider.com}
On 5/3/2008, Mauricio Tavares (raubvogel@gmail.com) wrote:
It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the username 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
What are you using for auth? That is where you should be looking.
Assuming I understood the question (It's brain dead Saturday!) I have dovecot setup as
auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5
but right now I am just doing the plain authentication. After all this mail server is still not finished so only machines in the lan can even see it. Once I am satisfied, I'll add tls and all that good stuff. If this matters, I have no problems accessing the mail server using pine, where I set the path to the inbox as
But what are you using on the backend? Password scheme/db?
Have you read all of the pages here?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication
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Best regards,
Charles
On 5/2/2008 Mauricio Tavares wrote:
It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the username 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
That's right. The username in Thunderbird's server settings is just the username. It is not your email address.
-- Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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.
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
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 the username 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. I think you are just confused by Thuderbirds messages saying something
Timo Sirainen wrote: like "login: user@host" - it's just generic form to display login info. "@host" part is never used for login.
Uldis
On 5/4/2008, Uldis Pakuls (neko@it4u.lv) wrote:
I think you are just confused by Thuderbirds messages saying something like "login: user@host" - it's just generic form to display login info. "@host" part is never used for login.
<sigh> I thought he was seeing this in the logs.
It should be a list rule that you *must* provide both output of dovecot -n *and* relevant log snippets when asking for help on a problem like this...
It sure saves a lot of time and energy and leads to fast (and accurate* problem resolutions... although, I will say that Timo sometimes appears to be able to read the posters mind and solves the problem without this info...
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Best regards,
Charles
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Benjamin R. Haskell
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Charles Marcus
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Ed W
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Mark Sapiro
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Mauricio Tavares
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Timo Sirainen
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Uldis Pakuls