On 5/3/2008, Mauricio Tavares ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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

What are you using for auth? That is where you should be looking.

Assuming I understood the question (It's brain dead Saturday!) I
have dovecot setup as

auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5

but right now I am just doing the plain authentication. After all this
mail server is still not finished so only machines in the lan can even
see it. Once I am satisfied, I'll add tls and all that good stuff. If
this matters, I have no problems accessing the mail server using pine,
where I set the path to the inbox as

But what are you using on the backend? Password scheme/db?

Have you read all of the pages here?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication

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Best regards,

Charles

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