[Dovecot] Help!

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Sat Oct 13 08:31:54 EEST 2012


Am 13.10.2012 02:45, schrieb Gedalya:
> This has nothing to do with dovecot or with any server.
> Thunderbird tries to guess settings such as your IMAP and SMTP server
> addresses, ports, TLS, authentication scheme, etc. Sometimes none of the
> guess attempts matches your settings. That's not an actual problem. Just
> enter the settings manually.
> 
> If your priority is to make Thunderbird quickly and automatically
> configure your email accounts, read here
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration
> 
> Note that this is Thunderbird-specific, Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry
> etc. each have their own autoconfiguration schemes.

you may use

http://www.automx.org/
for that

> 
> 
> On 10/12/2012 01:09 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
> 


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Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer



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