[Dovecot] Bit of a Newbie Question

[Wouter Van Hemel]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jud wrote:

> Apologies in advance - I'm sure there's something quite obvious I'm not
> doing correctly, but since I'm unable to resolve the problem myself....
>
> I've installed Dovecot 99.14 on FreeBSD-CURRENT using the Dovecot
> FreeBSD port.  My "network" consists of a cable modem connected to a
> router which is in turn connected (only) to my computer.  My ISP assigns
> a dynamic IP address.  I have ddclient set up to sync the dynamic IP to
> my hostname and MX via dyndns.org.
>
> Local operations (local delivery via Postfix or copying/moving/deleting
> with Thunderbird) work fine.  Mail delivery from remote machines does
> not seem to work via either IMAP or IMAP-SSL.  (That is, test e-mails I
> send from this [Fastmail] account to my local IMAP server never reach
> their destination.)  Enabling port forwarding on my router for ports 993
> and 143 has made no difference.
>

What do you mean with "Mail delivery via IMAP"? It is up to your MTA and 
LDA (postfix, I presume) to deliver these mails into a folder where the 
imap server can find them. This has little to do with dovecot.

Check your postfix configuration... or, your provider may be blocking 
access to port 25. Many providers do.

> What should I be doing to make this work correctly?
>
> Jud
>
>