[Dovecot] Help!

[Arne K. Haaje]

Den 12.10.2012 19:09, skrev Justin Vore:
> 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..


This explains how to set up autoconfigure in TB. You need a DNS record 
and a little work on a webhost.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

Arne
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