[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

[Charles Marcus]

On 5/3/2008, Mauricio Tavares (raubvogel at 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 at thespider.com, it will try to login 
>>> as boris at 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