[Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.

Charlie Davis fishgills at fishgills.net
Sat Apr 1 05:56:58 EEST 2006


1.0 Beta 3.

Plain authentication works. But not TLS.

I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems obvious to deny TLS authentication.

-Charlie

----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 javert42 at cs.byu.edu wrote:

> Charlie Davis wrote:
>> Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be
> thunderbird/outlook friendly?
>>
>> Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I
> Get the error:
>>
>> "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings
> for your mail server."
>>
>> I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available
> as well, still no love.
>>
>> Dovecot logfile contains:
>>
>> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
> lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
>> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
> lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
>>
>> Nothing else.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Charlie
>>
>>
>>
> I've got beta2 running on an RHEL4 box, and I've had no problems with
> Thunderbird (with people running anywhere from 0.7 to 1.5).  Which
> version of dovecot are you running?
> 
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