imap not working postfix+dovecot

[Nathan England]

Is Thunderbird configured to retrieve your email via POP using the IMAP 
port?




On 2015-10-12 18:22, Keith Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can receive on 110/STARTTLS/Normal password
> 
> when I set to 143/STARTTLS/Normal password
> 
> I get a Thunderbird failure message:
> 
> An error occurred with the POP3 mail server. Mail server
> host.domain.tld responded:
> 
> /var/log/mail.log
> 
> Oct 12 17:54:00 Host-name dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
> attempts in 4 secs): user=<>, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,
> session=<44Tb96tDAqBQB>
> 
> /var/log/syslog contains the same message as above.
> 
> /var/log/mail.err shows no new entries
> 
> No new lines in /var/log/upstart/dovecot.log
> 
> nmap scan localhost says 143/tcp open  imap
> 
> dovecot-imap is installed.
> 
> When I go back to 110 the email I sent are pulled in when I check for
> mail.  It appears the emails are making it into my maildir, however I
> cannot retrieve with imap.
> 
> Not sure why I cannot configure imap.
> 
> Any help much appreciated.

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