[Dovecot] TLS timeout with Thunderbird

[Mark Nienberg]

Jason Dixon wrote:
  This happens with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 and 1.5.0.8 on Mac OS X, and
> Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 on Windows 2000.  Any ideas would be greatly 
> appreciated.

Dovecot works well with imaps and pops.  I'm kind of surprised to hear that your 
Mail.app works.  Is it really using TLS?  Anyway, I'm sure if you switch to ssl 
instead, it will work.  I have Thunderbird on Mac and Win doing it that way.  There 
is some info in the wiki about how to configure.

Mark