Problems with connecting Thunderbird client to dovecot installed on Ubuntu

Question

I am looking for way to assign output of a command to a batch variable, but the command internally uses another variable.

When i use the solution specified in Assign Command output to Variable in Batch file

I am getting error that the variable inside the command was not expected at this time.

Please help

Solution 1

Troubleshoot your IMAP server first. Just beware, do it over a secure connection, because all your credentials are sent plaintext.

telnet your.mail.server.com 143

. login username password

. list "" "*"

. select INBOX

. fetch 1:* flags

To read the body of the first message in the current selected folder:

. fetch 1 rfc822.text

Or just see here for more examples:

Accessing IMAP email accounts using telnet

If that stuff doesn't work, that's proof positive that Dovecot is not correctly configured.

Solution 2

That mail is delivered to ~/Maildir does not mean Dovecot works at all – Dovecot only handles IMAP, not SMTP or delivery.

• Fix your mail_location. You say that your mail is delivered to ~/Maildir, yet your Dovecot is configured to look in ~/mail and /var/mail/%u. Change mail_location to maildir:~/Maildir.

• Make sure your PAM configuration in /etc/pam.d/dovecot is correct.

• Look for any error messages in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/auth.log (authentication errors usually go to the latter).

Comments

[user1686]

Next time please post output of dovecot -n, rather than the entire config file.

[Ryan Bemrose]

It would help to know what command you're trying to use, and exactly how it isn't working.

[Michael Omer]

Thanks. I've tried configuring both maildir:~/Maildir and maildir:/home/%u/Maildir, with no success.

[Michael Omer]

Sorry, for the garbled comments, This is the first time I use Super User. Added adding additional information above. Thanks.