Dovecot and thunderbird authentication issue?

[Juri Haberland]

On 19.04.20 23:44, David Mehler wrote:
> I'm using Dovecot 2.2, Postfix 3.5, and am atempting to get the latest
> version of Thunderbird to work. I tried account autoconfig which did
> not work, so I had to manually enter information and correct other
> information. On my server dovecot supports plane and login
> authentication methods but only over starttls i've got a letsencrypt
> certificate. My thunderbird configuration looks good, right hosts for
> incoming and outgoing mail, right ports, 143 starttls, and 587 smtp
> submission, and thunderbird has the authentication method set for
> normal password. This I interpreted to mean thunderbird is going to
> starttls then send the username and password. Thunderbird is giving me
> this error:
> 
> imap server does not support the selected authentication method
> 
> I realize this is vague, any suggestions?

What about showing what dovecot logged at that moment?
Output from "doveconf -n" would be helpful, too.

Even though I don't use Thunderbird with STARTTLS (but with SSL/TLS on port
993) I'm pretty sure this should work.


Best,
  Juri