On 19.04.20 23:44, David Mehler wrote: > I'm using Dovecot 2.2, Postfix 3.5, and am atempting to get the latest > version of Thunderbird to work. I tried account autoconfig which did > not work, so I had to manually enter information and correct other > information. On my server dovecot supports plane and login > authentication methods but only over starttls i've got a letsencrypt > certificate. My thunderbird configuration looks good, right hosts for > incoming and outgoing mail, right ports, 143 starttls, and 587 smtp > submission, and thunderbird has the authentication method set for > normal password. This I interpreted to mean thunderbird is going to > starttls then send the username and password. Thunderbird is giving me > this error: > > imap server does not support the selected authentication method > > I realize this is vague, any suggestions?
What about showing what dovecot logged at that moment? Output from "doveconf -n" would be helpful, too. Even though I don't use Thunderbird with STARTTLS (but with SSL/TLS on port 993) I'm pretty sure this should work. Best, Juri