On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 16:40 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote: > The Ubuntu installation has this line in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file; > > !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol > > That directory contains one file; > > dovecot-imapd.protocol > > and it contains one line; > > protocols = $protocols imap > > So I am assuming that it is adding imap to the protocols in the > environment variable $protocols somehow?
Not environment variable $protocols, but the previous "protocols" setting's value in dovecot.conf. > I did get TBird to retrieve mail from port 993 using SSL however. Will > it work without a protocols = imaps? Yeah, there's no such thing as "imaps protocol". I should never have included it as a protocol in previous Dovecot versions either..
