[Dovecot] thunderbird not connecting

[cc "maco" young]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com>wrote:

> On 9/3/2012 11:21 PM, cc young wrote:
> > 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
>
> What does TB activity manager say?
>
>
Activity Manager is blank

as an update, went to Claws email client.  it had enough feedback and  gave
me enough ways to tweak - got everything going.

went back to TB.  recognized server, but no username/password.  perhaps
it's not letting the full email - which is the user name - through.  but
who knows?  no feedback.