[Dovecot] Help!

[Christian Rößner]

Hi,

>> 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..
> 
> I have found Thunderbird's automatic setting detection mechanism to be
> rather unreliable.
> 
> Try entering the settings manually.


I am one of the automx developers. Have a look at http://www.automx.org. It is open source.

I also finished setting up a test server, so you can try with mail address automx at automx.org, pw: automx and see how it works.

Kind regards

-Christian Rößner

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