In this case telnet is an SMTP client and Thunderbird is an SMTP client. One works and another does not. Seems like a client issue to me. IMAP has nothing to do with sending email except that maybe a copy of your sent message may get stored on the IMAP server under a "Sent Items" folder. I would check your postfix logs.
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Williams Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:32 PM To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Seth Mattinen sethm@rollernet.us wrote:
Dovecot does not speak SMTP to other mail servers, unless you mean "send mail" in a different sense than I'm used to.
~Seth
I mean that I can send (SMPT) via Telnet which Postfix does fine. However when I configure Thunderbird mail client to use the IMAP (Dovecot) settings and attempt to compose a new message, the user (recipient) never receives the message. I am thinking as well as users of the Postfix list that this issue is related to my Dovecot config file not being properly set up. I could be wrong...