Hey list, Finally got up and running, and now am trying to figure out why dovecot would only accept imap connections - I have people that are happy with pop, but they can only authenticate when they use imap. Is there a conf setting for this somewhere that I am missing? -- Mitch
You have to set the 'protocols' field in dovecot.conf to include pop3 and/or pop3s. I also believe you have to uncomment the 'login-executable' line for pop3. Saurabh. Mitch Pirtle wrote:> Hey list, > > Finally got up and running, and now am trying to figure out why > dovecot would only accept imap connections - I have people that are > happy with pop, but they can only authenticate when they use imap. > > Is there a conf setting for this somewhere that I am missing? > > -- Mitch-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sa.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 323 bytes Desc: not available URL: <dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20041124/9c9fff40/attachment-0001.vcf>
Thanks Saurabh! That was the ticket. However, some clients mention that they get authentication errors, but only intermittently. Could that have something to do with the way dovecod authenticates pop clients? -- Mitch On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:33:23 -0700, Saurabh Barve <sa at atmos.colostate.edu> wrote:> You have to set the 'protocols' field in dovecot.conf to include pop3 > and/or pop3s. I also believe you have to uncomment the > 'login-executable' line for pop3.
Nope, just sticking with simple pop3 at this point ;-) The second issue I am having is that Thunderbird seems to 'freeze' from time to time on directories that have more than 1000 messages in them. I remember reading earlier that there were some performance tweaks for Thunderbird, but I lost the link :-( I cannot replicate the authentication problem, and will wait to see if it is a layer 8 protocol error (between the ears). Thanks for the help, you have been stupendous! -- Mitch On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:01:29 -0700, Saurabh Barve <sa at atmos.colostate.edu> wrote:> Are you using simple POP3 or secure POP3? If you are using secure POP3, > then you have to tell the clients that they need to accept your > certificate permanently, not just for that session. Otherwise, the mail > clients will complain about self-signed certificates every time they > log in.