[Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail

[Justin Krejci]

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 at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com at 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 at 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...