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
On 10/12/2012 1:09 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
I have found Thunderbird's automatic setting detection mechanism to be rather unreliable.
Try entering the settings manually.
-Ben
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@automx.org, pw: automx and see how it works.
Kind regards
-Christian Rößner
Bachelor of Science Informatik Erlenwiese 14, 36304 Alsfeld T: +49 6631 78823400, F: +49 6631 78823409, M: +49 176 93118939 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, http://www.roessner-network-solutions.com
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
Arne K. Haaje http://www.drlinux.no/ ::: arne@drlinux.no LinkedIn: http://no.linkedin.com/pub/arne-haaje/27/189/bb
Am 12.10.2012 19:09, schrieb Justin Vore:
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.
Enter settings manually or set up automx (http://www.automx.org/).
Regards, Tobias Hachmer
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.
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
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
-- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer
participants (7)
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Arne K. Haaje
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Ben Johnson
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Christian Rößner
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Gedalya
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Justin Vore
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Robert Schetterer
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Tobias Hachmer