[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
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> > 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 at mail.thespider.com, which will not fly.
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>  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...
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     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 at thespider.com, it will try to login as
boris at thespider.com@mail.thespider.com

>  Ed
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