[Dovecot] dovecot dead

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:22:36PM +0800, Allen Sim wrote:

[please keep list cc'ed: this might help others]

> Hi Tomas....
> Happy Easter!

Same to you :-)

> Great to hear from you and indeed your reply really help me a lot! My
> dovecot is running now!
> 1. I am running my client mail which is Netscape7.2 on laptop, not in
> the mail server.
>     Under Netscape 7.2. in Edit > Mail & Newsgroups Account Setting >
> server setting>server name. In server name i put down the mail server
> ip address. what should i put in the username column? it keeps pop up
> a dialog box asking me to key in password...

So it seems your client "sees" the IMAP server, if I interpret that
correctly?

>                                              how abt the SMTP setting?
> is it the same????

SMTP is completely different. You'll have to point your client to an
SMTP server which is willing to accept the mails and forward them.
Either you have one running on your server box, or you point directly to
your ISP's SMTP server.

Running an SMTP server on one's own is no trivial matter these days:
spammers will work hard to mis-use it for their own mean purposes (and
they are quite skilled).

> 2. Or should i use thunderbird to do this???

I have no experience with Netscape and little with thunderbird -- but
both should work as IMAP clients, at least at a basic level. Maybe
somebody else on the list knows more.

Regards
- -- tomás
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