local imap server on my laptop

[Andrej Marjan]

On August 11, 2010 10:46:21 am Matt Price wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, CLIFFORD ILKAY
> 
> thx clifford.  I am trying to set it up and i think i have it working, but
> it's not clear to me how to get thunderbird to  connect to the local
> server.  Does anyone out there know how to get any graphical mua, but
> especially thunderbird, to connect to a local imap server using the unix
> authentication methods?  I;m not sure how to do it, the thunderbird config
> panels are a little sparse and uncommunicative.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> matt

By default: 

- point it at localhost:143 (by default) 
- don't tell it to use any encryption or security stuff (unless you've 
specially enabled that in dovecot)
- give it your unix credentials

I don't have Thunderbird handy right now, but under KMail I tell it to use 
"Plain Text" authentication.

If you can get Thunderbird working with a remote IMAP server, it really isn't 
any harder to get it working with a local one.

Hope that's enough to get you started.
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