How do I login on Thunderbird with Dovecot IMAP?

qu4rk · Post by **qu4rk** » May 25th, 2017, 5:27 am

I can log in to my email from my Android phone perfectly fine using SSL port 993. However, I cannot automatically or manually setup an account on Thunderbird at all.

I'm using Thunderbird (52.1.1) on Ubuntu 16.04. I have a server setup to use Dovecot 2.2.22.

I've turned on debugging for Dovecot & get this message in my syslog when I try to manually setup an email account:

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dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=**************, lip=**************

The Thunderbird console says this:

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GET 
XHR 
http://autoconfig.************.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml [110ms]
Headers
Params
Response
Call Stack
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflateAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveHostautoconfig.************.comUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

GET 
XHR 
http://************.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml [HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 0ms]
Headers
Params
Response
Call Stack
Content-Length399Content-Typetext/html; charset=iso-8859-1DateSun, 21 May 2017 15:34:47 GMTLocationhttps://************.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml?emailaddress=******%40************.comServerApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflateAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveHost************.comUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

GET 
XHR 
https://************.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml [HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 518ms]
Headers
Params
Response
Cookies
Cache-Controlno-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0ConnectionKeep-AliveContent-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8DateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:40 GMTExpiresWed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMTKeep-Alivetimeout=5, max=100Link<https://************.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"ServerApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)Set-Cookiewfvt_3095988458=5926cb646802b; expires=Thu, 25-May-2017 12:47:40 GMT; Max-Age=1800; path=/; HttpOnlyTransfer-EncodingchunkedVaryAccept-Encoding
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflate, brAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveHost************.comUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

POST 
http://ocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.org/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 22ms]
Headers
Response
Cache-Controlpublic, no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=36094Connectionkeep-aliveContent-Length527Content-Typeapplication/ocsp-responseDateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:40 GMTEtag"E63707BC656CD53C2AF92393D233B0370AAADA5B1F0171DA3273D129A1346808"ExpiresThu, 25 May 2017 22:19:14 GMTLast-ModifiedTue, 23 May 2017 18:00:00 UTCServernginx
Accepttext/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8Accept-Encodinggzip, deflateAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveContent-Length85Content-Typeapplication/ocsp-requestHostocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.orgUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

POST 
http://ocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.org/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 12ms]
Headers
Response
Cache-Controlpublic, no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=36094Connectionkeep-aliveContent-Length527Content-Typeapplication/ocsp-responseDateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:40 GMTEtag"E63707BC656CD53C2AF92393D233B0370AAADA5B1F0171DA3273D129A1346808"ExpiresThu, 25 May 2017 22:19:14 GMTLast-ModifiedTue, 23 May 2017 18:00:00 UTCServernginx
Accepttext/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8Accept-Encodinggzip, deflateAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveContent-Length85Content-Typeapplication/ocsp-requestHostocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.orgUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

GET 
XHR 
https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/v1.1/************.com [HTTP/2.0 302 Found 330ms]
Headers
Response
Cookies
Call Stack
Cache-Controlmax-age=21600Content-Typetext/html; charset=iso-8859-1DateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:41 GMTExpiresThu, 25 May 2017 18:17:41 GMTLocationhttps://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/************.comServercloudflare-nginxVaryAccept-EncodingX-Firefox-Spdyh2cf-cache-statusEXPIREDcf-ray36486ed609708273-ATL
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflate, brAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveCookie__cfduid=da8484a29820842962e83866e2d04b2ad1490616267Hostlive.mozillamessaging.comUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

GET 
XHR 
https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/************.com [HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 269ms]
Headers
Response
Cookies
ConnectionKeep-AliveContent-Length220Content-Typetext/html; charset=iso-8859-1DateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:41 GMTKeep-Alivetimeout=5, max=100ServerApache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflate, brAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveCookie__cfduid=d7a0a50c0e38611c598d41abdae3401501493724325Hostautoconfig.thunderbird.netUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

GET 
XHR 
https://live.mozillamessaging.com/dns/mx/************.com [HTTP/2.0 302 Found 278ms]
Headers
Response
Cookies
Call Stack
Cache-Controlmax-age=21600Content-Typetext/html; charset=iso-8859-1DateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:41 GMTExpiresThu, 25 May 2017 18:17:41 GMTLocationhttps://mx.thunderbird.net/dns/mx/************.comServercloudflare-nginxVaryAccept-EncodingX-Firefox-Spdyh2cf-cache-statusMISScf-ray36486ed9aa2f8273-ATL
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflate, brAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveCookie__cfduid=da8484a29820842962e83866e2d04b2ad1490616267Hostlive.mozillamessaging.comUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4
       
GET 
XHR 
https://mx.thunderbird.net/dns/mx/************.com [HTTP/2.0 200 OK 366ms]
Headers
Response
Cookies
Cache-Controlpublic, max-age=3600Content-Length23Content-Typetext/plain; charset=UTF-8DateThu, 25 May 2017 12:17:42 GMTExpiresThu, 25 May 2017 13:17:41 GMTServercloudflare-nginxVaryAccept-EncodingX-Firefox-Spdyh2cf-cache-statusEXPIREDcf-ray36486edbde8c830f-ATLx-powered-byDNS-MX/0.04
Accept*/*Accept-Encodinggzip, deflate, brAccept-Languageen-US,en;q=0.5Connectionkeep-aliveCookie__cfduid=d7a0a50c0e38611c598d41abdae3401501493724325Hostmx.thunderbird.netUser-AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Lightning/5.4

I don't really care about automatically configuring it. I just need to manually configure it. I've tried all types of ways to set the account up: SSL, STARTTLS, Normal password, etc. Every configuration possible. Still everything is the same.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?