On 2025-11-03 12:30, demo--- via dovecot wrote:
as a newbie suddenly requiring a mail server the configuration of dovecot and postfix is proving elusive. if i get one element working another fails. i think it would help readers if i supply my status report and ask for suggestions as to how to ensure a remote client can access the mail just delivered from another remote in addition for mutt to see the mail on the sever.
Trying to break down what you want to achieve:
- Receive mail (hence Postfix)
- Read mail from a remote client (hence Dovecot)
- Read mail via
mutt(not specified whether it should be from a remote client, or directly on the server)
From the rest of your email, it would appear that you used an LLM, which is only so useful... It can give you an idea, but it won't give you a proper guide with copy and paste commands to set up a mail server.
Perhaps you would be interested in reading through the following guide
for setting up a mail server (recently updated for Debian 13 and,
therefore, for Dovecot 2.4), and see if you could use it? It will
explain how to set up a mail server with Postfix and Dovecot (and
others), with mail accessible from remote clients (via IMAP, which
leaves the emails on the server). You can also use mutt as a remote -
or, if really needed, as a local - client to read mail via IMAP (either
via imap.domain.com or so, or via localhost).
https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie
If you have more specific questions, ask.
regards jsm
Regards, Edmund
-- Edmund Lodewijks <edmund@proteamail.com> TZ: UCT+2 / GMT+2