This is my first attempt at creating a mail server. I'm running postfix and dovecot on Fedora 7. So far the process has been very enlightening. I currently have the server able to send and receive messages for a domain from the server machine itself. In addition, I can SMTP from any client set up on the LAN by logging in. However, I cannot retrieve messages from remote clients on the LAN. Thunderbird reads "Connected to" {servername} across the bottom, then times out. I tried to telnet to port 110 on the server, and I no response, just hangs. Not sure where the problem lies. Thanks for any assistance.

here's the output of dovecot -n:

1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf

login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login

login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login

mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3

mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3

auth default:

passdb:

driver: pam

userdb:

driver: passwd

Randall Donaldson

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