[Dovecot] thunderbird not connecting

[Spyros Tsiolis]

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> From: "cc "maco" young" <bangkokmaco at gmail.com>
>To: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 9:42
>Subject: Re: [Dovecot] thunderbird not connecting
> 
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>On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>> From: cc young <bangkokmaco at gmail.com>
>>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>>> Cc:
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 7:21
>>> Subject: [Dovecot] thunderbird not connecting
>>>
>>> cannot get TB to recognize either pop3/s or imap/s server
>>>
>>> can connect just fine with:
>>>
>>> openssl s_client -connect ms1.myserver.net:993
>>> . login ...
>>>
>>> but trying with TB /var/log/mail.log gets:
>>>
>>> dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234,
>>> lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx
>>> dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=223.205.150.234,
>>> lip=xxx.xx.xx.xx
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>Thunderbird is not the best of clients out there.
>>It's ok but not the best.
>>
>>I am using TB on my sites and found out that it has many issues.
>>Can you be a bit more specific ?
>>Are you trying to connect to Secure IMAP ? (993) on dovecot ?
>>
>>In that case, as far as I remember you have to "fool" Thunderbird
>>during the mail account set up process. 
>>
>>It's a bit crazy, I know but it's true. I have documented everything.
>>Let me know where the hickup is and I'll try to get the docs and
>>let you know how to work around this.
>>
>>HTH,
>>
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>right -   trying to connect to Secure IMAP ? (993) on dovecot
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>not in love with thunderbird, but need to access via linux and ms
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>any help / insight would be wonderful
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> 


Hi again,


Taken from my docs .

This is the first part for Mozilla Thunderbird setup.
I've seen this work both on Win32 systems and linux systems
(mainly Linux Mint).

There's a part on pop3/smtp. I am sure you can skip that and
do your own magic for those two protocols : 









Pre-Installation, Wizard Configuration
--------------------------------------

During initial Thunderbird startup, the admin is greeted by a welcome window named “Mail Account Setup” 
Click on Cancel

Installation
------------

Click on “Edit” ->  “Account Settings”
New window pops up
Click on “Add”
New window pops up
Fill in “Description” (e.g. “Name Surname mailbox”)
On “Server Name” enter the IP address (e.g. 192.168.3.5)
On “Port” enter the SMTP port (e.g. 25)
On “Security and Authentication” → “Connection Security” enter none
On “Authentication Method” choose Password transmitted insecurely
On “Username” enter the users' username including the FQDN (e.g. name at domain.gr)
Click on OK

From “Edit”, click on “Account Settings”
From “Account Actions” click on “Add Mail Account”
New windows pops up

Enter in the same name for “Your name”
Enter in the same e-mail address for “Email address”
On “Password” enter in users' password
Click on “Continue” then without waiting click on “Manual Config”

Once “Manual Config” is clicked, thunderbird will allow the admin to perform additional configuration tasks

For “Incoming” the admin will choose “IMAP”, Server Hostname will be set to the servers' IP address (again, 192.168.3.5)
From “Port” choose “993”
From “SSL” choose “SSL/TLS”
From “Authentication” choose “Autodetect”
For “Outgoing” the admin will let the “SMTP” option
For “Server Hostname”, choose the same IP address (e.g. 192.168.3.5)
For “Port” choose “25”
For “SSL” choose “None”
For “Authentication” choose “Normal Password”

On the Username field, enter the full user name, e.g. “user at domain.gr”
Click on “Re-test”

Click on “Create Account”
Check on the “I understand the Risks” checkbox 
Click on “Create Account”
Click on “Confirm Security Exception”

Click on “OK”









Hope this helps and best regards,

Spyros







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