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.
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