[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

[Mark Sapiro]

> 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 at thespider.com, it will try to login as
> >boris at 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.

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