This has nothing to do with dovecot or with any server.
Thunderbird tries to guess settings such as your IMAP and SMTP server
addresses, ports, TLS, authentication scheme, etc. Sometimes none of the
guess attempts matches your settings. That's not an actual problem. Just
enter the settings manually.
If your priority is to make Thunderbird quickly and automatically
configure your email accounts, read here
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration
Note that this is Thunderbird-specific, Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry
etc. each have their own autoconfiguration schemes.
On 10/12/2012 01:09 PM, Justin Vore wrote:
HELP!
I have installed sendmail, dovecot, and squirrel mail. The squirrel
mail portion of it works just fine, but I would like to have Mozilla
Thunderbird as a client. Whenever I try and connect to the server it
says "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email
account." We do have an MX record in DNS pointing to our server. We
are using Ubuntu 12.0.4.1, and have Dovecot 2.2.6 sendmail version
8.14.4-2ubuntu2 We are doing this for a class project and it is due by
Tuesday 10/16/2012..
Thanks,
Justin
