[Dovecot] Help!

[Ben Johnson]

On 10/12/2012 1:09 PM, Justin Vore wrote:
> HELP!
> 
> I have installed sendmail, dovecot, and squirrel mail.  The squirrel
> mail portion of it works just fine, but I would like to have Mozilla
> Thunderbird as a client. Whenever I try and connect to the server it
> says "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account." 
> We do have an MX record in DNS pointing to our server. We are using
> Ubuntu 12.0.4.1, and have Dovecot 2.2.6 sendmail version 8.14.4-2ubuntu2
> We are doing this for a class project and it is due by Tuesday 10/16/2012..
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Justin
> 

I have found Thunderbird's automatic setting detection mechanism to be
rather unreliable.

Try entering the settings manually.

-Ben