[Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:32 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote:
> 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. 

Then it's a Thunderbird configuration problem.

> 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...

Dovecot has nothing to do with sending mails. The closest it comes to is
when TB saves the sent message to "Sent messages" mailbox (or whatever
it is configured to use).

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