[Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

[Reindl Harald]

ThunderBird

if you choose "encrypted password" it's in fact CRAM-MD5
that is different in different mail-clients

some let you choose the auth-mech, some have a default
and the some doing the right chosse the actual best one
available announced by the server

Am 27.03.2014 15:34, schrieb Blake McBride:
> I don't know what TB is.
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:
>> Am 26.03.2014 21:47, schrieb Blake McBride:
>>> Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth
>>> attempts): rip=74.179.230.177, lip=192.168.168.53
>>> Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: last message repeated 2 times
>>> Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth
>>> attempts): rip=74.179.230.177, lip=192.168.168.53
>>> Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: last message repeated 3 times
>>> Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth
>>> attempts): rip=74.179.230.177, lip=192.168.168.53
>>
>> what auth-mechs have you configured and how is TB configured?
>> "no auth attempts" in most cases indicates the client don't agree
>> with the auth-mechs offered by the server (PLAUN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, LMTP)
>>
>> in doubt try that in dovecot.conf
>> auth_mechanisms = CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 APOP LOGIN PLAIN

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