Re: dovecot imapd on network
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:16:34PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/03/2010 03:56 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > In essence Debian Dovecot is broken out of the box, WRT remote clients,
> > intentionally. You must manually enable plain text auth and/or SSL/TLS
> > auth. This is one of the good traits of Debian. It tries to keep you
> > from getting yourself into trouble due to lack of education/knowledge.
> > It forces you to learn to the software simply to get it working the
> > first time.
> yeah, I was already in the config, and reading a few HOW-TO's..
> saw the entry for plain_text_auth=yes or whatever that variable was (
> from memory), but I had already changed that.
> I wasn't trying to log in via IMAPS, just IMAP, plain text.
> pop didn't work either, so I'm guessing it it is something else. I WAS
> able to get this to work on the M$ XP side using thunderbird, and I was
> able to connect to my IMAP account in windows,so it is most definitely
> an issue with my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop setup.. so I'm looking at the wrong
> side.. it isn't Debian dovecot that has the issue, it is ubuntu laptop
> that can't connect.. my bad..
>
My wife's Ubuntu 10.04 laptop had the same problem w/ Thunderbird and
dovecot. The workaround I used was to enable nscd on the Ubuntu laptop.
For some reason, that fixed it. Give it a shot.
-Rob
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