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

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Joseph Tam wrote:

> Blake McBride writes:
>
>> Thanks.  The current version of Thunderbird auto-detects connection
>> parameters - presumably by trying every combination.  All I give is an
>> email address and a password.  They also have a manual configuration that I
>> spent a lot of time with.  I was never able to do any better than their
>> auto-config.
>
> That's usually the cause of many problems I see with log entries like yours.
> It could happen when client and server disagree on using STARTTLS or SSL,
> so hardwiring your client to use whatever your server supports stops the
> client from fumbling around (and getting it wrong).

I have to agree, that automagic stuff fails often.

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Steffen Kaiser
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