On Sun, 4 May 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:27 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How would I do the same under thunderbird from a machine in the same
lan (taz.thespider.com)? It seems to keep trying to login as
[EMAIL PROTECTED], which will not fly.
Thunderbird logs in using whatever *string* you type in the username
box. It doesn't even have to be in the format of an email address...
It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the
username box to the front of the name of the mail server. So, if I
have the username as [EMAIL PROTECTED], it will try to login as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.thespider.com
How do you determine that it uses such login? From Dovecot's logs? If
this really is happening, there's something weird going on in your
Thunderbird. It shouldn't be appending the server name to your login
name.
Timo and Ed are right. Thunderbird should be using the string exactly as
you type it in the username field. It looks like a user-interface issue. I
just setup an account at localhost with the username:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
When logging in, the dialog box pops up asking for the password for:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@localhost
(extra @localhost)
but the auth plain string (with password boobar) is:
AGJoYXNrZWxsQGZsaWJiZXJkeWdpYmJldC5leGFtcGxlLmNvbQBib29iYXI=
i.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(no @localhost)
This is with a relatively old Linux Thunderbird, but still, It's probably
not actually using the extra domain when logging in.
Best,
Ben
