Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 13.07.2018 um 16:44 schrieb John Rowan:
> I've been struggling trying to get Thunderbird to read e-mail off a 
> CentOS 7 server.
> 
> Sendmail writes mail in /var/spool/mail
> 
> I've configured dovecot to try to read from there using Thunderbird 
> (POP3/SMTP).

You didn't explicitly configure pop3 as a protocol.

ss -tanlpe | grep "110"

> The firewall allows ports 25/110.

SMTP doesn't matter here.

> I verified I have mail in /var/spool/mail
> 
> but Thunderbird is unable to retrieve that mail.
> 
> I've googled sendmail / dovecot config, I've looked a the wiki but I 
> just can't figure this out.
> 
> Please don't suggest using postfix, I just want to get sendmail / 
> dovecot working.

Look at the source of truth: the mail log

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging

Alexander


> [@mail conf.d]# dovecot --version
> 2.2.10
> 
> [root at mail conf.d]# dovecot -n
> # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.i686 i686 CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 
> (AltArch)

Why don't you keep your install updated?

Alexander