Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts

2014-03-28 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Joseph Tam wrote: Blake McBride writes: Thanks. The current version of Thunderbird auto-detects connection parameters - presumably by trying every combination. All I give is an email address and a password. They also have

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-27 Thread Blake McBride
I don't know what TB is. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Am 26.03.2014 21:47, schrieb Blake McBride: Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=74.179.230.177, lip=192.168.168.53 Mar 26 15:04:51

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-27 Thread Reindl Harald
ThunderBird if you choose encrypted password it's in fact CRAM-MD5 that is different in different mail-clients some let you choose the auth-mech, some have a default and the some doing the right chosse the actual best one available announced by the server Am 27.03.2014 15:34, schrieb Blake

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-27 Thread Blake McBride
Thanks. The current version of Thunderbird auto-detects connection parameters - presumably by trying every combination. All I give is an email address and a password. They also have a manual configuration that I spent a lot of time with. I was never able to do any better than their

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.03.2014 16:33, schrieb Blake McBride: In terms of the config, I really don't know what I am doing. I think what I want is clear text passwords sent over an SSL connection. Isn't that secure? I don't know the difference between SSL and that TTSL thing. I really don't care how it is

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-27 Thread Blake McBride
What I meant by don't care is that there are, presumably, many secure options. I don't care about which one. I just want something simple to configure. Having a working understanding of SSL, I understand that sending unencrypted text over an SSL connection is reasonably secure. I do it

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts

2014-03-27 Thread Joseph Tam
Blake McBride writes: Thanks. The current version of Thunderbird auto-detects connection parameters - presumably by trying every combination. All I give is an email address and a password. They also have a manual configuration that I spent a lot of time with. I was never able to do any

[Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-26 Thread Blake McBride
Greetings, I am running 64 bit Ubuntu server 10.04.04, postfix 2.7.0, and dovecot 1.2.9. I installed the dovecot-postfix package so the two would be configured to work together. From localhost I can send and receive email to/from arbitrary remote sites without any problems. I wish to send

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.03.2014 21:47, schrieb Blake McBride: Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=74.179.230.177, lip=192.168.168.53 Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: last message repeated 2 times Mar 26 15:04:51 booklion dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-26 Thread Blake McBride
Thanks for the help!! I added the auth_mech.. line and reset dovecot but got the same error message. dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-57-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s managesieve ssl_cert_file:

Re: [Dovecot] Help connecting from remote client (no auth attempts)

2014-03-26 Thread Blake McBride
I found I was enabling the options you requested in the wrong place. After fixing it I get: Mar 26 16:21:03 booklion dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.9 starting up (core dumps disabled) Mar 26 16:21:04 booklion dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: APOP mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs Mar 26